Roger Ebert Quotes

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.

I understand that people have a critical mind towards my position. And receive a lot of confusion too.

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

Donald Trump's a bigot without a shadow of a doubt.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

The fact is that when you talk about Mujib [Rahiman], everything seems so incredible. I don't understand how the world can take him seriously.

I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

By the way, Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast. So, if I'd really go 'by the book' ... it'd be problematic.

It's just the environment that we're in right now. There's a lot of people who still don't want to believe that the program we have in place is a good program, and that it's going to work. They're just trying to find a way to shoot holes in it.

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.

Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. You can't let it get to you.

When we started the show, there were mixed responses. Half of the people said, 'That show doesn't have a chance.' The other half said, 'That show doesn't have a prayer.'

I always wanted to dress up like Darth Maul.So I designed my own kilt.

Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

[Carly Fiorina] can argue it all she wants, but I don't believe that.

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

Simple. Atlantis can't be found." He scoffed at her. " You're the second person to tell me that in less than an hour.

A new report reveals that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent over $82,000 on food at NFL games. Christie said, 'Hey, both of those games went into overtime.'

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

Most people assume because I'm an actor that's all I know about and care about, I'm actually a camera geek and a film geek. I grew up making short films the same time I was acting. For me, it's a motion picture, not a play. I'm just as interested in what the camera department is doing and world building through costume design and production design as I am in acting. I think all good directors do that whether they're an actor or not.