Top 34 Good Roger Ebert Quotes

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

Roger Ebert

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#2. 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

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#3. There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

Roger Ebert

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#4. 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.

Roger Ebert

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#5. The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.

Roger Ebert

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#6. 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.

Roger Ebert

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#7. Writing is healthy schizophrenia.

J.R. Morton

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#8. This was a mental game as much as a physical challenge, designed to reinforce the fact that staying focused and motivated is absolutely critical to mission success and basic survival in war.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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#9. Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

Roger Ebert

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#10. I hire people that are good, and aren't crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy.

Tina Fey

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#11. My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

Roger Ebert

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#12. It's a good question, because 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.

Roger Ebert

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#13. 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

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#14. If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

Roger Ebert

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#15. (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.

Roger Ebert

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#16. Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

Roger Ebert

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#17. The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.

Garry Robbins

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

Roger Ebert

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#19. Some things get better with age. Like me.

Keith Richards

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#20. Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

Roger Ebert

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#21. Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good.

Roger Ebert

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#22. No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

Roger Ebert

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#23. All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

Roger Ebert

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#24. Faith in God gives us joy. It is a certainty of His glorious blessings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#25. I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

Roger Ebert

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#26. I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.

Joe Perry

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#27. I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.

Roger Ebert

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#28. All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

Roger Ebert

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#29. In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Roger Ebert

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#30. Some high society lady said is your horse outside? No ma'am, he's between my legs, but your too fat to ride.

Hank Williams Jr.

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#31. It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. If you have to work this hard at sexual freedom, maybe it isn't worth the effort.

Roger Ebert

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#32. He had performed that last service that a man can perform for a friend - he had told the truth about him.

David Eddings

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#33. You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears - enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories

Roger Ebert

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#34. Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.

Roger Ebert

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