Sidney Lumet Quotes
Collection of top 36 famous quotes about Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet Quotes & Sayings
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There is no small act of kindness.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
You're sure you didn't leave? Didn't try to explore Thunder Bay again, maybe go down to the park and, I don't know, dismember some poor jogger?
— Kendare Blake
My plan is to govern as long as I can.
— Kathleen Wynne
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
There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.
— Rudolf Nureyev
All good work requires self-revelation.
— Sidney Lumet
Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is
— Sidney Lumet
I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.
— Jerry Uelsmann
Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate ...
— Emma Lazarus
The thing about talking swords ... it's hard to tell when they're kidding. They have no facial expressions. Or faces.
— Rick Riordan
Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.
— Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
— Wesley Morris
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
— 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
I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.
— Gloria Steinem
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
Now I'm thinking about letters, the molecules of sentences and songs, the bricks of words.
— Paul Tremblay
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
— Sidney Lumet
Light achieves its highest potential in the dark.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
— Henry George
I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.
— Michelle Williams
Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).
— Sidney Lumet
'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
