Roger Ebert Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people. And for me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a little bit more about different hopes, aspirations, dreams and fears. It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Journey, Civilization

• A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Thinking, Giving

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert”, p.184, University of Chicago Press

• The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Men, Moments

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, p.23, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Spring, Secret

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.734, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Memories, Slides

  Roger Ebert (1985). “A Kiss Is Still a Kiss”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Poor, Mortals

  Roger Ebert (2010). “The Great Movies III”, p.150, University of Chicago Press

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