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Roger Ebert (Critic)

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
— Roger Ebert emotions
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 religion
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 war
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
— Roger Ebert time
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 art
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 you
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
We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.
— Roger Ebert help
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.
— Roger Ebert war
Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
— Roger Ebert self
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
There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.
— Roger Ebert love
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
— Roger Ebert art
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
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
— Roger Ebert good
One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.
— Roger Ebert world
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
— Roger Ebert people
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
— Roger Ebert movies
My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
— Roger Ebert good
Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
— Roger Ebert romance
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 people
I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.
— Roger Ebert believe
Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.
— Roger Ebert service
Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
— Roger Ebert people
If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
— Roger Ebert religion
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
— Roger Ebert man
When I think about the kinds of movies that make me cry, that make tears come to my eyes, I usually dont think about sad films. Sad films, I sort of just look at it. Its movies that are about selflessness, that are about sacrifice, about humans that believe in the good of the human race that sometimes move me.Roger Eberts DVD commentary for Casablanca
— Roger Ebert time

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