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Roger Ebert Quotes | Quotes said by Roger Ebert

  • Roger Ebert Quote #1

    A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.


  • Roger Ebert Quote #2

    A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #3

    A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #4

    A work is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about what it is about.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #5

    All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #6

    An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #7

    Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

  • Roger Ebert Quote #8

    Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #9

    By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #10

    Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician?

    That reminds me of the famous story about Squeaky the Chicago Mouse. It seems that Squeaky was floating on his back along the Chicago River one day. Approaching the Michigan Avenue lift bridge, he called out: Raise the bridge! I have an erection!

  • Roger Ebert Quote #11

    Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #12

    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, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #13

    Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #14

    How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove people mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #15

    I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #16

    I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #17

    I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear

  • Roger Ebert Quote #18

    I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #19

    I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation. . . . Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #20

    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 of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #21

    I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #22

    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 vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #23

    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 toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #24

    If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #25

    In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #26

    It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #27

    It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #28

    It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #29

    Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

  • Roger Ebert Quote #30

    Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

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