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Movie Quotes by Roger Ebert
- The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
- There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be…
- 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
- It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.
- I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
- I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me…
- It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you…
- Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
- No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
- It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.
- It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.
- Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
- My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
More Movie Quotes
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. — Darren Aronofsky
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
- I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for… — Dave Attell
- Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. — Kevin Bacon
- The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy… — Kevin Bacon
- The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script. — David Bailey
- I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean… — Amy Adams
- Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. — Alec Baldwin