Gene Siskel Quotes

I have strong views, and I can't imagine not ever being honest about those views.

In my view, a review should be like talking to a friend who's just asked you, 'What was it like?' You're giving a verdict on an experience, not trying for a definitive last judgment.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. I mean, nobody wants to put them out of a job and a good critic is not necessarily a dead critic. It's just that people take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent of stupid -- but most people don't take the trouble.

If people are reacting to films based on their degree of success or failure, then they're not really looking at the movie. I don't really care about that. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but at least base your opinion on the merit of the work itself.

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.

Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

Don't believe everything you read.

I never read reviews of something I want to see.

You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

Trust the acting.

People will support somebody who they think believes what he says and stands for.

Certainly, critics are not all created equal.

I give my honest opinion, whether it's right or wrong, but it's an opinion that I'll make.

I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me in that bare fact by writing an intelligent review.

If you're out there saying something that you don't personally believe, then it doesn't really matter if a voter agrees with what you're saying. If they don't believe that you believe it, then they're not going to listen to you anyway.

You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.

Authenticity, to me, is something that you feel, and if it doesn't feel authentic, you pick up on it right away.

Younger viewers have a very strong detector for what's real and legit and what's phony or pandering.

There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has to feel real.