top of page
Quote_1.png
Roger Ebert

"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."

Standard 
 Customized
"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."

More 

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Roger Ebert
"All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions."

People

Quote_1.png
Roger Ebert
"I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason."

People

Quote_1.png
Roger Ebert
"By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested."

Friendship

Quote_1.png
Roger Ebert
"Most of us do not consciously look at movies."

Movies

Quote_1.png
Roger Ebert
"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."

Hollywood

Quote_1.png
Roger Ebert
"A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that."

Movies

Quote_1.png
Roger Ebert
"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."

Time

Quote_1.png
Roger Ebert
"It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics."

Politics

Quote_1.png
Roger Ebert
"Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think."

Movies

Quote_1.png
Roger Ebert
"Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film."

Movies

bottom of page