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Film Quotes by Roger Ebert
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to…
- When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have a voyeuristic experience;…
- The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if…
- Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.
- Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
- A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the…
- Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not…
- Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations…
- If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to…
- One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered
- Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley...…
- Grave of the Fireflies†is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest…
- Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
- Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye,…
- Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
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- I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
- I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. — Amitabh Bachchan
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan