Roger Ebert Directors Quotations

It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.

Well, you know, a lot of modern directors and their movies are influenced by the flat lighting and textbook cutting style of television.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

I had a hard time watching Wolf Creek. It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.