Roger Ebert Quotes

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

"Million Dollar Baby"

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"The target audience didn't care that we hated those movies because they just expected us to hate them."

"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly"