Roger Ebert Quotes

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them were harmed during the production.

In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

Some of these people make my skin crawl.

I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?

Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.

(Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement.

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

We are the playthings of the gods.

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life.

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

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.

One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

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.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.

Valentines Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think its more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do not date that person again. And if you like it, there may not be a second date.

I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.

It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.

Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.