Quotes by Roger Ebert

About Roger Ebert:

Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. As of 2010, his reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Ebert also published more than 20 books and dozens of collections of reviews.
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Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

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Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to inflame political passions and energize the John McCain campaign with star quality.

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I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

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I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

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We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

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In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

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

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

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

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People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

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The Academy is paranoid about its image.

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The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

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Sometimes it's all about the casting.

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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.

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Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.

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

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

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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.

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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

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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.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameRoger Ebert
  • DescriptionAmerican film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
  • AliasesRoger Joseph Ebert
  • BornJune 18, 1942
  • DiedApril 4, 2013
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Critic; Journalist; Reporter; Writer
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Criticism