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You Quotes by Roger Ebert
- If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.
- There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
- 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…
- Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
- Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
- Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow…
- Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
- Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
- The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change…
- Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals…
- If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?
- Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.
- There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
- 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…
- Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when…
- I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift…
- I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or…
- 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…
- 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…
- The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman…
More You Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin