577 Quotes by Roger Ebert

Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.

I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film.

Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.