Pacino: “Is there any special country you want to go to?”
Cazale: “…Wyoming.”
-Dog Day Afternoon, 1975
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”
-Network, 1976
Policemen, bank robbers, pundits, judges, jury, wizards, Manhattanites:
Sidney Lumet evidently made such films about such characters not because they would change the world, or because they had any cultural significance, but because “…I like it and it’s a wonderful way to spend your life.”
