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Best Movie Quotes by Roger Ebert
- We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for…
- It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.
- I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily.…
- We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book,…
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