Sidney Lumet Quotes

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

A writer needs a life of introspection.

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

A lot of my songs are just posing questions, because I'm on a journey to find the answers myself.

I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.

When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.

I've really taken time to dive into my heart and my emotions a little more. I think, before, I was a little nervous to open up that box and go, 'What's in there,' you know? Now, that's what's made the best music, and that's what I've been able to pull out of parts of myself that I never knew existed.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about… and find a home.

I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.