Roger Ebert Quotes

American - Critic June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013

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

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

Intelligence, Lie, Emotions, You, Never

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Roger Ebert

Great, Parents, Religion, Diversity, You

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth. Roger Ebert

Autumn, Tree, Woman, Night, Walking, Me

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, Responsibility, Speak, Speech

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. Roger Ebert

Work, Sky, Clouds, Process, Look, Like

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. Roger Ebert

Nothing, Venice, Straightforward, Seems

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate. Roger Ebert

Bullying, Child, Hate, Prejudice, You

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open. Roger Ebert

Day, Road, Window, Search, Drunk, You

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

Death, Boredom, You, Nothing, Like

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted. Roger Ebert

Life, Challenges, Only, Up, Cannot, Made

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

Good, Short, Long, Enough, Bad, Movie

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience. Roger Ebert

Truth, Experience, Good, Feel, Reflect

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. Roger Ebert

People, Group, Reckless, Generalizations

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 they are magical. Roger Ebert

Mind, World, Story, Rules, Place, Born

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater. Roger Ebert

Best, End, Vampire, Doubt, Way, See

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. Roger Ebert

Together, Smart, People, Enjoy, Facts

Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory. Roger Ebert

Women, Time, Power, Rose, Paris, Wealth

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition. Roger Ebert

Love, Blessed, Think, Sweet, First Love

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something. Roger Ebert

Respect, Religion, Rights, Religions

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.' Roger Ebert

Motto, Good, Movies, Bad, Good Movie

From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama. Roger Ebert

Cinema, Drama, Television, Why, Human

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining. Roger Ebert

Money, Wife, Good, Value, Dinner, Party

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

Think, Look, Deserve, Because, Before

Sometimes it's all about the casting. Roger Ebert

Sometimes, Casting, About

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

Opportunity, Think, People, Self, Giving

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

Good, Us, Allow, Other, Many, Really

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