Gene Siskel Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Popular, Mcdonald, Food, Outlets

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Exciting, Characters

• 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

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in American, Story

• 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

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  Tags in Actors And Acting

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Critics, Credentials

• John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he’s a wonderful actor.

  Gene Siskel

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  Tags in Wonderful, Actor

• Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

  Gene Siskel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actors, Documentary

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

  Gene Siskel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

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

  Gene Siskel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worst, Movie

• We don’t pretend to disagree.

  Gene Siskel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves

• We’d rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn’t.

  Gene Siskel

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  Tags in Ourselves

Gene Siskel (11)

Birth:	26th January, 1946
Death:	20th February, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Journalist

About

Eugene Kal "Gene" Siskel was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune. Along with colleague Roger Ebert, he hosted a series of popular review shows from 1975 to 1999. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in philosophy in 1967, where he studied writing under Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey, who helped him land a job at the Chicago Tribune in 1969.

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