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Since actors need to get training someplace, in New York they tend to get it in the theater. In L.A., the only place they can get it is in TV. And the series are—as valuable as they are for sheer experience—deadening emotionally. Especially if you’re in a hit. After a year in a role, you’re not really discovering anything new.

— Sidney Lumet

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Hill, Logan (September 24, 2007). "Dog Day Afternoons: Sidney Lumet: Sidney Lumet on street life, getting beat up, and the next wave of New York cinema". New York Magazine. New York Media Holdings LLC. Retrieved 2007-12-26.