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Director Sidney Lumet Quotes By Ethan Hawke

Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to enter his dream as opposed to, you know, a guy like Sidney Lumet or something is going to ask you to create a character almost like a documentary. He wants you to make the people really real and he's going to capture it like a documentarian. — Ethan Hawke

Director Sidney Lumet Quotes By Julia Green

Because that's what you do when something terrible happens. You go over and over every little thing, looking for clues, trying to find a pattern and a way to make sense out of the muddle and hurt. — Julia Green

Director Sidney Lumet Quotes By Emily P. Freeman

But understand that the reason it is so difficult to extend forgiveness to those who have failed us is because we are unable to receive forgiveness for our own failures. — Emily P. Freeman

Director Sidney Lumet Quotes By Sidney Lumet

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

Director Sidney Lumet Quotes By Susan Sontag

The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game — Susan Sontag

Director Sidney Lumet Quotes By Cornel West

When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be part of the pool from which people choose jobs. That's not a substantive kind of move, but it was very important. — Cornel West

Director Sidney Lumet Quotes By George A. Romero

It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract and allusive with horror, and it's very forgiving to the author. You don't necessarily have to take an absolutely positive position. You can just write whatever. — George A. Romero

Director Sidney Lumet Quotes By William Stafford

A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself. — William Stafford

Director Sidney Lumet Quotes By Steven Spielberg

'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

Director Sidney Lumet Quotes By Rabih Alameddine

There is none more conformist than one who flaunts his individuality. — Rabih Alameddine