Roger Ebert Quotes

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• Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.
• I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the…
• Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
• What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away,
• Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
• We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in…
• I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
• Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.
• Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
• The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.
• To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
• Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same…
• I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.
• Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant…
• Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.
• Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the…
• To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the…
• I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.
• If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get…
• The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

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