Roger Ebert Quotes About Empathy

Quotes about: Empathy

• I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

  Roger Ebert

  Wisdom, Believe, Civilization

  Roger Ebert (2010). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011”, p.1500, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• 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

• Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

  Roger Ebert

  Empathy, Problem

• Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, People, Empathy

• In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called the movies a machine for causing emotions in the audience. Bresson (and Ozu) take a different approach. They regard, and ask us to regard along with them, and to arrive at conclusions about their characters that are our own. This is the cinema of empathy.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Laughing, Empathy

  Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.37, Crown Archetype

• The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

  Roger Ebert

  Civilization, People, Empathy

• Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

  Roger Ebert

  Empathy, Machines

  "Crush of the week: Roger Ebert" by Bim Adewunmi, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2015.

• Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Powerful, People

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.21, University of Chicago Press

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