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My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life. — Gena Lee Nolin

I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character. — Vin Diesel

There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at. — Sidney Lumet

Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy. — Sidney Lumet

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. — Sidney Lumet

There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs ... — Elliott Smith

All good work requires self-revelation. — Sidney Lumet

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is — Sidney Lumet

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors. — Sidney Lumet

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live. — Sidney Lumet

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't. — Sidney Lumet

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself — Sidney Lumet

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. — James Ramsey Ullman

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. — Wesley Morris

Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good. — Sidney Lumet

Good style, to me, is unseen style. — Sidney Lumet

Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room. — Sidney Lumet

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. — Sidney Lumet

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. — Sidney Lumet

all six of them a license." "That — Lawrence Block

Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie). — Sidney Lumet

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives. — Jeffrey Bernard

I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it. — Sidney Lumet

Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores. — Quincy Jones

Family faces are magic mirrors...we see the past, present, and future. — Gail Lumet Buckley

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back. — Steven Spielberg

The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident . — Sidney Lumet