It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles. Roger Ebert More Quotes by Roger Ebert More Quotes From Roger Ebert A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. Roger Ebert desirepeopleneeds Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it. Roger Ebert minoritiestechnologytrying It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a lifesaver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression. Roger Ebert realwritingthinking It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old. Roger Ebert actorslooksschool Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying. Roger Ebert knowingdeaththinking Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think. Roger Ebert attentionthinking Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap. Roger Ebert fightingkidschildren It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. Roger Ebert recklessgroupspeople I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values. Roger Ebert reasonablefamily-valuespatriotic Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex. Roger Ebert teenageradultssex My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that I haven't read many of them and I never will. You just never know. One day I may - need is the word I use - to read Finnegans Wake, the Icelandic sagas, Churchill's history of the Second World War, the complete Tintin in French, 47 novels by Simenon, and By Love Possessed. Roger Ebert one-daywarbook Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see. Eiko Ishioka's costume designs alone deserve an Oscar nomination. "They weren't at all historically accurate," grumbled a woman in the elevator after the sneak preview, as if lots of documentation exists about the wardrobes of the gods. She added: "I guess that's what we deserve for using free tickets we got at a Blackhawks game. Roger Ebert designdoubtgames I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest. Roger Ebert interviewsboredinterest All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it. Roger Ebert agreetolerance 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 givinglooksthinking In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods. Roger Ebert detailsqualitydirectors It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls. Roger Ebert fatesoulthinking Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him. Roger Ebert patheticheroneeds I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win. Roger Ebert oscarswinningyears Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters. Roger Ebert elementsstoriescharacter
