Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

We are the playthings of the gods.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

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.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

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

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.