JOEL SIEGEL

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

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

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.

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

The studio should not have released this film.

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

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

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

I liked television, and television liked me.

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.

I liked television, and television liked me.

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

Follow your passion.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The studio should not have released this film.

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.