Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think. – 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
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
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. – Roger Ebert
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. – J. G. Ballard