No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Say Anything depends above all on the human qualities of its actors. Cusack and Skye must have been cast for their clear-eyed… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Movies are not good or bad because of their subjects but because of their treatments of their subjects. Any plot can be… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“We’d had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the vulgar and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Most courtroom movies feel it necessary to end with a clear-cut verdict. But 12 Angry Men never states whether the defendant is innocent or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you.… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“One of my delights in these books, on the other hand, has been to include movies not often cited as “great”—some because they are… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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