70 Roger Ebert Quotes for You to Enjoy

Roger Ebert

American Critic

Born: Jun 18, 1942

Died: Apr 4, 2013

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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 Disappointment Young Lover State Project Must Follow About Something Only Perfect Couple Qualities Doomed Depressing

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think. Roger Ebert

Think Our More Absorb Attention Movies

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost. Roger Ebert

You Become Lost Films Wayne Characters Has-Been John Fonda John Wayne Instinctive Like Traditional Been Won American Buried James Which Hollywood Ethical Many Lived Code Henry Henry Fonda

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius. Roger Ebert

Funny Genius Possible Must Rise Vulgar Quite Succeed Certain

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence. Roger Ebert

Good People Good People About Screen Movies Require Reject Violence

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

Nothing Seems Venice Least Romances Straightforward Ever

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

Good You Characters Must Thrillers Rely Cheaper Like Know Because Been Afford Maybe Stories Producing Elements Why Millions Filmmakers

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them. Roger Ebert

Too High Ratings Stuck Course Suspect Them Average Ridiculous Star

It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable. Roger Ebert

Enough Righteous Must Also Movie

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

People Rich Someday Fact Most Going

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested. Roger Ebert

College Heritage Too Other Born More Variety Open-Minded Became Because Around Making Lot Friends Than Going Movies Moving Might Traveling Wide Things Wide Variety Suggested