Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. – Roger Ebert
If a movie isnt a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy. – Roger Ebert
Its a good question, because a movie isnt good or bad based on its politics. Its usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics. – Roger Ebert
Well, you know what, Im 60 years old, and Ive been interested in politics since I was on my daddys knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics. – Roger Ebert
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesnt have to be white, and the other one doesnt have to be the ethnic sidekick. Were way over that. And I think its happening in society, too. – Roger Ebert
Its funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House thats causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, its in the Bush Administration. – Roger Ebert
I begin to feel like most Americans dont understand the First Amendment, dont understand the idea of freedom of speech, and dont understand that its the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. – Roger Ebert
The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you cant change your mind, because God sure isnt going to change His. – Roger Ebert
The right really dominates radio, and its amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isnt. They want to shut other people up. They really dont understand the First Amendment. – 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
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film. – Roger Ebert
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think. – Roger Ebert
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. – Roger Ebert
Every great film should seem new every time you see it. – Roger Ebert
Most of us do not consciously look at movies. – Roger Ebert
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
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. – Roger Ebert
If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen. – Roger Ebert
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. – Roger Ebert
