Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebertwas an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. As of 2010, his reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Ebert also published more than 20 books and dozens of collected reviews...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 June 1942
CityUrbana, IL
CountryUnited States of America
There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
The Academy is paranoid about its image.
That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.
Sometimes it's all about the casting.
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.
Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
A film is a terrible thing to waste.
If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have a voyeuristic experience; we have an out of the body experience. The screen is more real than our thoughts are at the moment we are looking at the film and we place ourselves in the place of the people on the screen, and when they behave nobly, it makes us feel noble, when they are sad and when they have lost love, we feel sad; we can identify with that.
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.