Top 38 Siskel Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Siskel

#1. Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

Steve James

#2. My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

David Lynch

#3. I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

Sarah Vowell

#4. Gene Siskel used to describe old-age makeup as making young actors look like turtles.

Roger Ebert

#5. Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

Gene Siskel

#6. I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.

Banks

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. You love her. (Shanus) I barely know her. (Wulf) Time has no meaning to the heart. (Shanus)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.

Gene Siskel

#12. We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making our manufacturing more competitive.

Rick Santorum

#13. I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff.

Gene Siskel

#15. Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Jeffrey Deitch

#16. I already shot my wad on the Protestants!

Gene Siskel

#17. After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.

Gene Siskel

#18. 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

#19. We don't pretend to disagree.

Gene Siskel

#20. 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

#21. The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body.

Frederick Lenz

#22. We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.

Gene Siskel

#23. 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

#24. In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.

Gene Siskel

#25. I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

Patrick Roy

#26. Never let someone dim your light, simply because it's shining in their eyes

Fuel

#27. We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

John F. Kennedy

#28. Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote.

Ann Coulter

#29. Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.

Kwame Dawes

#30. There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

Gene Siskel

#31. What's important to me is people just being people.

Vince Staples

#32. A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.

Gene Siskel

#33. For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

Gene Siskel