Gene Siskel Quotes

"We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't."
- Gene Siskel

"We don't pretend to disagree."
- Gene Siskel

"They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in."
- Gene Siskel
(Related: Food, Money, Name)

"The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life."
- Gene Siskel
(Related: Life, People, Result, Want)

"That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story."
- Gene Siskel
(Related: Movies, American, Trying)

"Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?"
- Gene Siskel
(Related: Actors, Film)

"In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made."
- Gene Siskel
(Related: Fact)

"I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind."
- Gene Siskel
(Related: Movies, Heroism, Mankind)

"But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think."
- Gene Siskel

"After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley."
- Gene Siskel
(Related: First, Months, Sheep, Years)

"The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago."
- Gene Siskel
(Related: Actor, Brothers, Chicago)