577 Quotes by Roger Ebert

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation." That is why 90% of academic film theory is bullshit. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.

Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there on the spot, and that's rarely the case in acting. You have to know who the character is, what the situation is and what is needed.

If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.