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Screen Quotes by Roger Ebert
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the work of an…
- I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
- One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a…
- 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…
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