A collection of sayings and quotes by Roger Ebert on films, civilization, sadness, empathy, love, religion, education, cinema, art, beauty, truth, life, literature, philosophy, curiosity, books and tolerance.
Roger Ebert was an author, journalist, historian and screenwriter who is regarded as one of the best film-critics and an encyclopedia of film history. Ebert was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Ebert started his journey as a film critic writing for the Chicago Sun. He had also written more than a dozen of collective reviews, approximately 20 books and has affiliated his reviews with more than 200 newspapers. Ebert co-hosted the PBS show 'Sneak Previews' with Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel. They created and trademarked the phrase "Two Thumbs Up," which they used when both of them gave the same film a positive review. Ebert was the most influential film critic in Hollywood and his work, writings, thoughts, quotes and books are still appreciated by all. Ebert received a star on the famous ‘Hollywood Walk of Fame’ in 2005 becoming first critic to receive this honor. Presenting a collection of Roger Ebert sayings, thoughts and quotations on empathy, love, death, cinema and more.
Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.
There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.
Roger Ebert
Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
Roger Ebert
Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.
Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.
One, don’t wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it’s going?
As a child I simply did not notice whether a movie was in color or not. The movies themselves were such an overwhelming mystery that if they wanted to be in black and white, that was their business.
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.
As we leave the theater, we are absolutely convinced that the only thing keeping the world from going crazy is that the problems of three little people do, after all, amount to more than a hill of beans.
Roger Ebert
When you're young you don't realize that at every age you are always in the present, and in that sense no older;
The ability of an audience to enter into the narrative arc of a movie is being lost; do today’s audiences have the patience to wait for Harry Lime in The Third Man?
Roger Ebert
You are never warmer than when you have been cold.
There must be something deep within our memory as a species that is pleased by being able to look at what is making us warm.
Roger Ebert
Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
Roger Ebert
A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.
Roger Ebert
People trying to be funny are never as funny as people trying to be serious and failing.
The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures - because they think they've made one.
