Top 42 Best Ebert Quotes
#1. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.
Alex Ebert
#2. I'd rather be called a N*gger than a Slave.
Roger Ebert
#3. If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
Roger Ebert
#4. I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
Roger Ebert
#5. Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.
Roger Ebert
#6. The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films.'
Roger Ebert
#7. There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.
Roger Ebert
#8. It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a life-saver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.
Roger Ebert
#9. Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.
Alex Ebert
#10. Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.
Roger Ebert
#11. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.
Roger Ebert
#12. Recording music is not really the healthiest thing for the body.
Alex Ebert
#13. This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.
Roger Ebert
#14. Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.
Roger Ebert
#15. I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?
Roger Ebert
#16. It's so rare that I'll read or even watch an interview. I don't want to, either. I don't want to see other people's comments.
Alex Ebert
#17. What makes people interesting is the spirit that shines through.
Roger Ebert
#18. To call A Lot like Love dead in the water is an insult to water.
Roger Ebert
#19. What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away,
Roger Ebert
#20. A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.
Roger Ebert
#21. 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.
Roger Ebert
#22. 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
#23. In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.
Roger Ebert
#24. The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures - because they think they've made one.
Roger Ebert
#25. Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!
Roger Ebert
#26. We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars.
Roger Ebert
#27. The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.
Roger Ebert
#28. 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.
Roger Ebert
#29. All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
Roger Ebert
#30. We must try to contribute joy to the world.
Roger Ebert
#31. 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.
Roger Ebert
#32. 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
#33. 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.
Roger Ebert
#34. There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
Roger Ebert
#35. What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
Roger Ebert
#36. If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.
Roger Ebert
#37. In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.
Roger Ebert
#38. I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.
Alex Ebert
#39. 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.
Roger Ebert
#40. At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.
Alex Ebert
#41. 'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life.
Roger Ebert
#42. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier that is about the best we can do.
Roger Ebert
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