Roger Ebert Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

  Roger Ebert

  Jobs, Thinking, Giving

• I've been around a long time, and young men, if there is one thing I know, it is that the only way to kiss a girl for the first time is to look like you want to and intend do, and move in fast enough to seem eager but slow enough to give her a chance to say "So anyway ..." and look up as if she's trying to remember your name.

  Roger Ebert

  Girl, Moving, Kissing

• Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

  Roger Ebert

  Believe, Men, Play

  Interview With Brit Hume, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

• I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Giving, Television

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

• I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

  Roger Ebert

  Opportunity, Thinking, Self

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

• One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered

  Roger Ebert

  Giving, Titles, Lovers

• Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

  Roger Ebert

  Law, Giving, Asking

  Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub

• Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who are incapable of teaching anything else.

  Roger Ebert

  Teaching, People, Giving

  "Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology." by David Weddle, articles.latimes.com. July 13, 2003.

• (Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

  Roger Ebert

  Mistake, Hero, Iron

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.300, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Giving, Looks

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

• The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away from the poor and giving it to the rich wholesale, and at the same time, we have the runaway corporations, and the greed.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Giving, Greed

  Source: progressive.org

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