Roger Ebert
Related We had to postpone them a week because (film critic) Roger Ebert wanted them to appear on his televi... LEE WARREN Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good i... CHRISTOPHER YOUNG Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films ... JEFF BRIDGES My primary issue is health care and I (feel) I am the only one who has approached it with a rational... CHARLES WEASEL BEN WHEATLEY PIERCE BROSNAN I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with v... FRITZ LANG I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on... VINCENT GALLO I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked fro... TODD PHILLIPS CARLOS FUENTES ANN NOCENTI We are very pleased to have Roger join our board of directors. With his international and management... JOHN HALEY I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like '... ATTICUS SHAFFER Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films.... DARIO ARGENTO I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself. SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU I am a big scaredy-cat; horror films terrify me. DANIELLE PANABAKER MARGARET ATWOOD ROGER EBERT DEYTH BANGER JEFF GREENFIELD DEEPIKA PADUKONE KIRK HAMMETT Our philosophy is to select best-of-breed products and work with only one vendor. That way, we devel... GARY FISH E.M. FORSTER I am really close friends with Roger Federer and also with Benoit Paire. STANISLAS WAWRINKA I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that ... COMPAY SEGUNDO I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' w... BRYAN FULLER ELISHA CUTHBERT WES CRAVEN JIM MURRAY I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology w... SIR JAMES MURRAY WOLE SOYINKA My parents are proud to be Canadian, as I am. They had a lot to do with my success and sacrificed a ... DANIEL NESTOR I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and mee... ADAM GREEN DAVID CRONENBERG I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror wr... TANANARIVE DUE I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make ma... ALICE EVE I am not concerned with making esoteric, obscure kinds of films. These are films that can share and ... MIKE LEIGH PETER JACKSON C. JOYBELL C. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—... CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS GEORGE A. ROMERO At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is... EGON SCHIELE Once they are able to connect the emotion with the image, an archetypal healing occurs. ERIC GREEN WALTER LIPPMANN JEFFREY FRY NANETTE L. AVERY CHARLES STROSS SCOTT DERRICKSON ANNE BRONTë The Suffering is a true action-horror experience with plenty of disturbing and twisted creatures. We... ALAN PATMORE NANETTE L. AVERY As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belie... FRANZ ROTTENSTEINER The day will last for sometime. But at night, when I am with you, it last forever. IVANN RODRIGUEZ PHIL DONAHUE TERRY EAGLETON GEORGE A. ROMERO KANGANA RANAUT I read this script and it struck a chord with me, and I thought, why does this story affect me so mu... CURTIS HANSON SAMUEL JOHNSON I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films. TED KOTCHEFF A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a ... ADAM SHANKMAN EDGAR WRIGHT I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL DAVID CRONENBERG Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postm... JANE GOLDMAN JAMES WAN RYū MURAKAMI Subtle horror is where you rarely see the blood and gore. The violent people are called splatter-pun... RICHARD CHIZMAR BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA RICHARD P. FEYNMAN MARGARET MITCHELL BILL KURTIS NEEL MUKHERJEE Horror fans not only like this genre, they are passionate about it. DIANE ROBINA WESLEY MORRIS I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are pu... TIM ROTH I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular p... LANGHORNE SLIM ELI ROTH I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men. MICHEL TREMBLAY Horror fans not only like this genre, they are passionate about it. This is the first channel of its... DIANE ROBINA As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful w... BRIAN LUMLEY CHRIS MARTIN MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON AMIT RAY EDGAR WRIGHT Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON TAHIR SHAH CLIFFORD GEERTZ I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of ha... NATALIA KILLS Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. MASON COOLEY We have a lot of needs in terms of things that are deficient in schools, such as deferred maintenanc... MARK STRICKLAND COBI JONES It felt great, especially with all these fans here. It's such a good feeling knowing the fans are ap... MATT INOUYE Meeting new people with similar interests and learning all this stuff about making films has been a ... MATT BATES JAMES WOLCOTT I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do f... SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU PARK CHAN-WOOK
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The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and m... 
The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier. 
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature. 
I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they shar... 
[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural... 
Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series.... 
For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a se... 
When I finished 'Cocktail,' it took me a very long time to get out of Veronica's mindspa... 
A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome rever... 
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist o... 
All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we... 
I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology w... 
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for ... 
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y... 
Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with ve... 
I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ... 
A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King. 
Nobody has worked harder at inactivity with such a force of character, with such unremitting attenti... 
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. 
Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... 
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literatu... 
I would be concerned if one of my children were constantly watching nothing but horror films or indu... 
Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:... 
Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. 
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, ... 
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec... 
The big tickets come from a much younger audience and a different audience base. The midnight movieg... 
I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate w... 
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when ... 
Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there i... 
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y... 
Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films th... 
People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you'... 
Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live... 
Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so... 
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. 
We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironi... 
I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer. 
Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films. 
I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The... 
Our Canadian fans are extraordinary — we love Canada. 
Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this... 
Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It... 
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Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to e... 
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Cr... 
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I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so bi... 
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In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience se... 
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and wee... 
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular resu... 
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. 
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Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence. 
Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy. 
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I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off. 
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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do. 
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Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve 
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You win not by chance, but by preparation. 
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.