Roger Ebert Quotes

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

Hollywood was a fantasy world in more ways than one.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

With action movies, that's just fun stuff for me. That's me being a kid again. Same with 'The Best of Me' and these romantic dramas. It's such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

When I was a kid, I grew up watching musicals.