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Films Quotes by Roger Ebert
- 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…
- Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
- James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
- Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
- The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of…
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- If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be… — Brigitte Bardot
- There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the… — Emmanuelle Beart
- I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for… — Halle Berry
- My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid. — Sean William Scott
- On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was… — Stella Gibbons
- I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. — Amitabh Bachchan