Lumet Film Quotes & Sayings

The visit has commenced. The box step, three-quarter waltz time. No fast moves or sudden stops. — Allan Gurganus

When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it. — Lauren Cohan

Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea. — Antonio Machado

I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character. — Vin Diesel

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

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now. — Leonardo DiCaprio

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. — Ted Nugent

You try to follow suit and the directors I work with, like Sidney Lumet (on film in Before The Devil Knows You're Dead and TV in 100 Centre Street) who thinks actors hung the moon, thinks they can do anything, but he also works really quickly, the same like Clint Eastwood, and so you better also do your homework, you know? — Amy Ryan

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

The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime. — Charlie Pierce

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin. — Marcus Samuelsson

I'm really hoping he's being genuine because I can already tell he isn't the kind of guy a girl gets a simple crush on. He's the kind of guy you fall hard for, and the thought of that terrifies me. I don't really want to fall hard for anyone at all, especially someone who's only making an effort because he thinks I'm easy. I also don't want to fall for someone who has already branded himself hopeless. But I'm curious. So curious. — Colleen Hoover

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

Love falls in love with love;
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look. — Mocco Wollert

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't. — Sidney Lumet

Thus, from a group perspective, the inventory in P Ltd is overstated by $2,000 as is the profit in S Ltd. The consolidation adjustment required is: DR Consolidated retained earnings $2,000 CR Consolidated inventory $2,000 The adjustment will allow the consolidated statement to be correctly stated. — Astranti