Roger Ebert Quotes

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• We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to…
• Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and…
• I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that…
• Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice…
• Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is…
• Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The…
• The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance…
• To call A Lot like Love dead in the water is an insult to water.
• Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front,…
• You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the…
• Valentines Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think its more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do not date…
• There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big…
• No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.
• Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.
• We laugh, that we may not cry,
• An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then…
• When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should…
• I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
• The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers…
• I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other…

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