Roger Ebert Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about. Look at a movie that a lot of people love, and you will find something profound, no matter how silly the film may be.

  Roger Ebert

  Silly, People, Profound

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert”, p.388, University of Chicago Press

• Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

  Roger Ebert

  Ideas, Mind, Desire

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.402, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.

  Roger Ebert

  New Experiences, Two, People

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. But if you go to foreign films, if you go to documentaries, if you go to independent films, if you go to good films, you will become a better person because you will understand human nature better. Movies record human nature in a better way than any other art form, that's for sure.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Independent, People

  Source: progressive.org

• A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Desire, Needs

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

• Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

  Roger Ebert

  Eye, Cutting, Common Sense

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.22, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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