By Sidney Lumet (2015)

Sidney Lumet: Self

Quotes 

• Sidney Lumet : I'm not directing the moral message. I'm directing that piece, and those people. And if I do it well, the moral message will come through.

• Sidney Lumet : It's a movie that I did not realistically but naturalistically. I very often make up a color palette for a movie and in certain cases like in "Dog Day"... no palette. Let it all be accidental. Nobody had a costume made for that. I asked all the actors to wear their own clothes.

• Sidney Lumet : The reason The Holocaust is unique is not that it was the first time that a population was killed. That's happened throughout history. But I think it was the first time that your next door neighbor killed you. Six million neighbors killed six million people.

• Sidney Lumet : New York as a setting is capable of whatever mood or dramatic statement you want to make. Architecturally, in its light. Boy, talk about winter light as Mr. Birdman did. New York's winter light is ravishing. I'm not comfortable any place but New York. When I leave New York for other places in the United States, my nose starts to bleed.

• Sidney Lumet : The mob mentality is precisely what the Army works on.