Sidney Lumet describes his motivations for making the movie “12 Angry Men,” one of his first projects as a filmmaker.
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TRANSCRIPT
If you asked me specifically, 'When you did 12 Angry Men, were you interested in the justice system?' Absolutely not, I was interested in doing my first movie, and I was very impressed that Henry Fonda wanted me as the director because he had seen something I had done off Broadway.
It was one of the most obvious motifs.
12 Angry Men, I think it changed the law in England - great!
That isn't why I did it.
I wasn't out to change the law in England.
