Roger Ebert Quotes

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• We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.
• We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
• Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.
• If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a…
• There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their…
• Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when…
• I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they want to come…
• I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So…
• I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift…
• I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or…
• If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed…
• To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the…
• We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't…
• You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look…
• A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron…
• A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action…
• 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a…
• All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making…
• All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to…
• Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before…

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