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
It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!
Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people.' I do believe that. Not superior to all other people, but to some, most probably including those who think Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is a great film. That is not simply ego on my part. It is a faith that after writing and teaching about films for more than 40 years, my tastes are more evolved than those of a fanboy.
If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.
It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.
Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,
And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
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.
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.
I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.
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.