577 Quotes by Roger Ebert

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy – the kind of ride where some people puke and others can’t wait to get on again.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren’t solved, they’re dealt with.

Their costumes look purchased from the Goodwill store on Tatoine.

The right really dominates radio, and it’s amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn’t. They want to shut other people up. They really don’t understand the First Amendment.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film’s defining moments.

Fast Food Rule. Wanna know what the summer’s blockbuster is going to be? See who McDonald’s does the marketing tie-in with. Wanna know what blockbuster will do disappointing business? See who Burger King ties in with.

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

Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. When they think of “X,” it’s on the way to the video store.

You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears – enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories.