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Top 20 Sidney Lumet Quotes (2025 Update)

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

1. “All good work requires self-revelation.”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “Good style, to me, is unseen style.”

2. “Good style, to me, is unseen style.”

— Sidney Lumet

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

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

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.”

4. “There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is.”

5. “Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is.”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “Don’t let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.”

6. “Don’t let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself.”

7. “There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself.”

— Sidney Lumet

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

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

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “There’s no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.”

9. “There’s no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.”

— Sidney Lumet

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

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

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “I only said ‘Titanic’ is unwatchable because one can not watch it.”

11. “I only said ‘Titanic’ is unwatchable because one can not watch it.”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that’s a little crazy.”

12. “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

Sidney Lumet Quote: “It’s art. It’s commerce. It’s heartbreaking and it’s fun. It’s a great way to live.”

13. “It’s art. It’s commerce. It’s heartbreaking and it’s fun. It’s a great way to live.”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “While the goal of all movies is to entertain, the kind of film in which I believe goes one step further. It compels the spectator to examine one facet or another of his own conscience. It stimulates thought and sets the mental juices flowing.”

14. “While the goal of all movies is to entertain, the kind of film in which I believe goes one step further. It compels the spectator to examine one facet or another of his own conscience. It stimulates thought and sets the mental juices flowing.”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “There’s a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.”

15. “There’s a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That’s why critics love them so.”

16. “But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That’s why critics love them so.”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .”

17. “The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “My job is to care about and be responsible for every frame of every movie I make. I know that all over the world there are young people borrowing from relatives and saving their allowances to buy their first cameras and put together their first student movies, some of them dreaming of becoming famous and making a fortune. But a few are dreaming of finding out what matters to them, of saying to themselves and to anyone who will listen, “I care.” A few of them want to make good movies.”

18. “My job is to care about and be responsible for every frame of every movie I make. I know that all over the world there are young people borrowing from relatives and saving their allowances to buy their first cameras and put together their first student movies, some of them dreaming of becoming famous and making a fortune. But a few are dreaming of finding out what matters to them, of saying to themselves and to anyone who will listen, “I care.” A few of them want to make good movies.”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “If I don’t have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don’t have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.”

19. “If I don’t have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don’t have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.”

— Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet Quote: “The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn’t.”

20. “The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn’t.”

— Sidney Lumet

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

21. “Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.”

— Sidney Lumet

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