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

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

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
Roger Ebert

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
Roger Ebert

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Roger Ebert

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

The Academy is paranoid about its image.
Roger Ebert

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
Roger Ebert

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

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.
Roger Ebert

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

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

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Roger Ebert

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

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