Sidney Lumet Quotes

10 quotes from 10 authors

Sidney Lumet’s name carries weight in film circles, and these ten brief remarks capture a range of opinions on his work. Whether you know him for courtroom dramas or character studies, the collection offers a quick pulse on his legacy.

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'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied…

Steven Spielberg

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

Wesley Morris

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I worked with Sidney Lumet years ago, and we had a long rehearsal process, and he would tape out the entire set…

Denzel Washington

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I did this thing for HBO called 'Strip Search' with Sidney Lumet, who was one of the best directors I've ever worked…

Ken Leung

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Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for…

Quincy Jones

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I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on…

Vin Diesel

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Sidney Lumet is one of my favorite filmmakers. I feel like his approach to filmmaking was always so human. He was always…

Derek Cianfrance

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I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used…

J. C. Chandor

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You try to follow suit and the directors I work with, like Sidney Lumet (on film in Before The Devil Knows You're…

Amy Ryan

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I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're…

Jodie Foster

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