Roger Ebert Quotes

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.

I'd rather be called a N*gger than a Slave.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

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

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

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

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered

Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.

Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.

Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

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 His.

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend all ideological boundaries.

Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society.

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

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

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.

No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.

Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra; you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff.

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them.

A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!

The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.

"The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

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.

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.