Sidney Lumet movie quotes

“In Hollywood, actors learn to act from watching television. In New York people learn to act by walking down the street.”
Sidney Lumet

“Locations are characters in my movies. The city is capable of portraying a mood a scene requires.”
Sidney Lumet

“Kurosawa never affected me directly in terms of my own movie-making because I never would have presumed that I was capable of that perception and that vision.”
Sidney Lumet On Akira Kurosawa

“Anything you can do with film, I can do with HD.”

Sidney Lumet

“The word ‘actress' or ‘authoress' always struck me as condescending. A doctor's a doctor, right? So I've always referred to ‘actors' and ‘writers,' regardless of their sex.”
Sidney Lumet

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

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

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

“All good work requires self-revelation.”
Sidney Lumet