Roger Ebert Quotes

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert

Intelligence, Lie, May

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.
Roger Ebert

Different, Try, Both

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
Roger Ebert

Freedom, Understand, Speak

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
Roger Ebert

Good, Bad, Long

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
Roger Ebert

Movies, Moving, Friends

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Roger Ebert

Movies, Time, Great

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
Roger Ebert

God, Give, Play

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

Fine, Glad, Web

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

Rich, Fact, Someday

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.
Roger Ebert

President, Elected, Bush

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.
Roger Ebert

Give, Television, Paper

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
Roger Ebert

Idea, Beyond, Categorize

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.
Roger Ebert

Self, Friendly, Giving

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
Roger Ebert

Experience, Car, Forget

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
Roger Ebert

Teen, Whole, Violence

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

Change, God, Mind

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.
Roger Ebert

Society, Movies, Two

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.
Roger Ebert

Long, Eyes, Away

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
Roger Ebert

Movies, Action, Needs

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

Good, Yourself, Become

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.
Roger Ebert

Give, Before, Read

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
Roger Ebert

Movies, America, Often

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

Bored, Interest, Celebrity

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

Last, Generation, Took

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
Roger Ebert

Reason, Prejudice

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: June 18, 1942

Died: April 4, 2013

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