I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it? — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do?… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,'… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find… — 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