Roger Ebert
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on... VINCENT GALLO I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Pr... BENEDICT WONG About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS RICK RIORDAN Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think t... MICHAEL STUHLBARG I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES RICK RIORDAN Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human conditi... SAM WELLER AUNJANUE ELLIS Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS LUCAN LUCAN ORLANDO BLOOM JAMAIS CASCIO CHARLES STROSS I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing r... ADRIAN LYNE Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."GORDON KORMAN SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of document... PHILIPPE FALARDEAU SAMUEL R. DELANY GEORGE A. ROMERO As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a... RAFE SPALL 'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexual... BARRY JENKINS ELLEN WONG CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting th... SCOTT PELLEY NEIL GAIMAN 'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut... MARTIN VILLENEUVE I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON SAUL STEINBERG ALAN ARKIN The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audien... NEIL JORDAN CASSANDRA CLARE I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked fro... TODD PHILLIPS For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made. DUNCAN JONES If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's n... DAVID WEINBERGER DAVID LYNCH SALLY RIDE ARTHUR C. CLARKE JOHN CASSAVETES As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of ... TERESA PALMER NICOLAS CAGE DMX ROGER STONE SEANAN MCGUIRE RHYS DARBY I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a... PAUL HAGGIS JACK NICHOLSON TOM HARDY KYLE HILL I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be? NATALIE DORMER I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is al... ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or blac... RUTINA WESLEY Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON BILL MAHER What's really scary about the original 'Blair Witch' is that it doesn't really answe... ADAM WINGARD The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can al... ANN LECKIE A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through ... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn... BEN KATCHOR MICHAEL BIEHN My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the... ADAM CHRISTOPHER I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Gr... REG E. CATHEY JERRY LEWIS I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have a... TREVOR RABIN MARTIN SCORSESE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me a... LAURA INGRAHAM BEHATI PRINSLOO RICHARD C. ARMITAGE ARUNDHATI ROY A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, 'Wait a minut... GILBERT GOTTFRIED MICHAEL JACKSON JOHN UPDIKE With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there&#... DAN FUTTERMAN 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' is one of my favorite movies; it's a film that's a hu... JOSH TRANK I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it'... EMILY WATSON THEODORE ZELDIN IDINA MENZEL DAVID GERROLD CEELO GREEN George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure beca... ROBERT J. SAWYER 'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entert... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU DANIEL KAHNEMAN STEVE JOBS Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? W... EUGENE CERNAN Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? W... GENE CERNAN
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I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... 
I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's fa... 
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. 
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A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which ... 
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. 
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. 
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. 
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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. 
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doe... 
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. 
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. 
I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, con... 
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's ... 
The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. Th... 
A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, ... 
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, yo... 
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Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel. 
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