"Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about……" — Roger Ebert
"Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners."
—
Roger Ebert
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
269 Quotes by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert has 269 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not…
-
I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional…
-
Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
-
What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away,
-
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
-
We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter…
-
I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
-
Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about…
-
Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
-
The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.
-
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
-
Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank…
See all 269 quotes by Roger Ebert »
More Documentaries Quotes
This quote is filed under Documentaries Quotes,
one of 243 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.
— Jamie Bell
-
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
-
I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.
— Jeff Bridges
-
I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's…
— Sophia Bush
-
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous…
— John Cleese
-
Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on…
— Kurt Cobain
-
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a…
— Joseph Conrad
-
I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the…
— Ray Romano
-
A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any…
— Mary Ellen Mark
-
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation…
— Sam Abell
-
Fear is not a word in my football documentary.
— Jose Mourinho
-
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
— Dorothea Lange
See all 243 Documentaries Quotes »