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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I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

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I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

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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.

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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 ...

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Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

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There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

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If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

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A film is a terrible thing to waste.

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It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

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

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James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Roger Ebert

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

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It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.

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We are the playthings of the gods.

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Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

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

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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.

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Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of t...

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A work is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about what it is about.

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Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.

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The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

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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