Roger Ebert Quotes

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.

The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.

It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

We live in an era now where every episode is reviewed 80 different times on the Internet by periodicals you've never even heard of.

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.

I think reviews have lost a lot of their importance now because of the Internet; everyone is experiencing things at the same time.

It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.

Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn't have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he's getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it.

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.

As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

I think YouTube used to have a negative connotation, like it was the place where the rejects went and made careers, but I'm proud to be YouTuber. I wanted to be in that first generation of YouTube stars who transitioned into the 'real world.' It was a really good way to build my business.

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.

I tend not to read reviews; there's too much out there in cyberspace.

In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

I don't check any Web sites daily, but I love Instagram.

Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting review, if you're kind of mean-spirited.

One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.

You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.

I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.

I love Instagram - I don't actually go on Twitter and tweet; I just connect it through my Instagram account. I think it's a good way of getting stuff out there and connecting with people.

The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing.

Every person with a phone is a critic.