Joel Siegel Quotes

• I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else’s movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn’t such a good film in Spanish, either.

  Joel Siegel

• Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don’t bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

  Joel Siegel

• You can’t believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.

  Joel Siegel

• There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

  Joel Siegel

• When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it’s the direction.

  Joel Siegel

• I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn’t stop till it was over.

  Joel Siegel

• Real movie producers aren’t this nice.

  Joel Siegel

• The studio should not have released this film.

  Joel Siegel

• What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

  Joel Siegel

• Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

  Joel Siegel

• Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

  Joel Siegel

• I liked television, and television liked me.

  Joel Siegel

• I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it’s not fair.

  Joel Siegel

• They are words you don’t easily forget: I don’t have good news.

  Joel Siegel

• If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don’t fight back it hurts forever.

  Joel Siegel

• Follow your passion.

  Joel Siegel

Joel Siegel (16)

Birth:	7th July, 1943
Death:	29th June, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Journalist

About

Joel Steven Siegel was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an American film critic for the ABC morning news show Good Morning America for over 25 years. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. He worked as a radio disc jockey and an advertising copywriter. He also worked as a joke writer for Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He received five New York Emmy Awards and a public service award from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association Award for general excellence in individual reporting. He wrote several books include: Lessons for Dylan, New Creation Meditations, Assembled Together, The Coming of the Lord, Repentance and Revival, Prosperity Killers, and Simple Faith.

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