Movies are like a machine that generates empathy. - Roger Ebert

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.

Roger Ebert

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

Empathy, Generates, Machine, Machines, Movies

Same Author Quotes

People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics. " Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

Years, Daddy, People, Praying, Interested

[Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be cautious, be prudent, be bland, never push anybody, never say what you really think, offer yourself as a hostage to the weirdos even before they make the first move. These days, a lot of people are opposed to the newfound popularity of 'trash television,' and no doubt they are right, and the hosts of these shows are shameless controversy-mongers. But at least they are not intimidated. Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Freedom, Memories, Moving, Newfound, Say, Thinking

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

Rights, Lacking Something, Lacking, Respect, Religion

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.

Fargo, Film, Films, Like, Movies

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.

People, Giving, Greed, Corporations, Policy, Fact

Similar Quotes

Diana Gabaldon

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

Action, Regrettable, Result, Results, Sometimes

Stella Adler

Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.

Character, Create, Creative, Imagination, Past

Amy Irving

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

Away, Children, Dad, Home, Long

Sarah Dessen

I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.

Dark, Home, Road, Running, Years

Zachery Ty Bryan

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

Child, Children, Opportunity, People