Explore Quotes by Roger Ebert

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

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

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

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.

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

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

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

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

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.

We are the playthings of the gods.

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

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

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

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

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

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

We must try to contribute joy to the world.

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

We must try to contribute joy to the world... I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.