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
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
Valentines Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think its more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and… — 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
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. — 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
We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for… — 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. That's why writing… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The right really wants to punish you for having an opinion. And I think both the left and the right should celebrate… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. — 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