577 Quotes by Roger Ebert

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped.

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

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.

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.