Films Quote by Roger Ebert

“But Hollywood cinema remains profoundly conservative, profoundly stupid, and often painful. About one out of every ten films is okay, meaning a little bit…

— T. Jefferson Kline

“Unless immoral in the extreme, we should not automatically judge a movie as inappropriate based solely on its method of communication. Nor should we…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people…

— Roger Ebert

“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.”

— Caro Clarke

“Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That’s why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the…

— Anonymous

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to…

— Kevin Costner

“The general idiocy of mankind is such that they can be swayed by words, and however mortifying, for the present you have to accept…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Some stories don’t make movies. I mean superheroes, spies, serial killers… sure. But there’s some feelings you can’t put on a screen.”

— Damon Suede

As bad as some movies can be, good movies are also possible, sometimes through the very heinous corporations we love to trash.

— Karyn Kusama

“The fictitious characters of movies undermine our personal relationships with others. we are constantly under pressure to fit into the mould created by fiction,…

— Awdhesh Singh

Good movies are difficult to make, and good trash is even harder to make.

— Udo Kier