Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebertwas an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. As of 2010, his reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Ebert also published more than 20 books and dozens of collected reviews...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 June 1942
CityUrbana, IL
CountryUnited States of America
And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.
My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.
Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!
And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.
Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.
I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
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.
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.