What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away, — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there? — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We… — 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
In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds,… — 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
They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We must try to contribute joy to the world. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others so that a completely… — 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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