Everybody has a love/hate relationship with their own country. — Yorgos Lanthimos Country Copy Share Image
I make films that are what they are. Some people like them, and some people don't. — Yorgos Lanthimos Cinema Copy Share Image
I always try and decide what I'm interested in, and I just do that. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Something that's a hilarious comedy, for someone else might be a drama. — Yorgos Lanthimos Comedy Copy Share Image
I never knew that I would even be making English-language films. — Yorgos Lanthimos Cinema Copy Share Image
I either enjoy things or not. And things either make me think, or they don't. Or they mess with me, and I… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I work very closely with my co-writer, Efthimis Filippou. Ideas either start from him or me, and then the other one develops… — Yorgos Lanthimos Communication Copy Share Image
I make films to explore concepts and raise questions, not tell the audience what to think. — Yorgos Lanthimos Audience Copy Share Image
'The Lobster' is very particular, and we did need to create a very specific world with specific rules so the whole premise… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I've played around with the notion of making a series on the premise of 'Alps' because it's one of the films no… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Because we're brought into the world or educated in a certain way, we're trained to accept the world in a certain way. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Being extremely honest is quite funny. But there's no recipe or concept that I can bring up that fully defines what we… — Yorgos Lanthimos Being Copy Share Image
I want all the mistakes to be mine, and I want to take responsibility for everything even if I fail. Whatever the… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Personal relationships, mood, chance, or anything like that can actually affect people's decisions, and when they're in a position of power, their… — Yorgos Lanthimos Chance Copy Share Image
'The Lobster,' at some point, was my most accessible film. Then I made 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer,' which turned out… — Yorgos Lanthimos Cinema Copy Share Image
There are things to love about filmmaking in Greece. People are generous: If you get along well with others, the people around… — Yorgos Lanthimos Filmmaking Copy Share Image
The way I work, and the material we work with, I think if you analyze too much and have too many specific… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film,… — Yorgos Lanthimos Absurdity Copy Share Image
For me, filmmaking is not about making statements but about exposing human behavior so people are eager enough to start thinking on… — Yorgos Lanthimos Assumptions Copy Share Image
Provocative... I used to be defensive about it, but in the end, I realised it's exactly right. It's what we're trying to… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I think there's all these unknown things you can tap into when you just leave things open, and nothing is forbidden. Then… — Yorgos Lanthimos Actor Copy Share Image
I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Whenever a film doesn't follow to the letter the preset strict conventional rules of today's commercial cinema, it's considered weird. — Yorgos Lanthimos Cinema Copy Share Image
In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance. — Yorgos Lanthimos Change Copy Share Image
It was always hard to make films in Greece, but making them with friends made it possible. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I enjoy sometimes focusing on a character in a scene that's not actually doing the main action or the talking. — Yorgos Lanthimos Action Copy Share Image
As an audience member myself, I love to be in a position where I'm trying to figure out what I am supposed… — Yorgos Lanthimos Audience Copy Share Image
I find it very interesting to keep people uncertain about what is what and figure it out as they go. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I just try and decide what I'm interested in and what excites me. I don't worry about how it's going to be… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Sometimes people say things and don't really know what they mean by what they're saying. Subconsciously, it might mean something different. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I work very physically. I don't like to intellectualize too much about what we're doing, or analyze it. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriends, or objects of desire. — Yorgos Lanthimos Desire Copy Share Image
If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious. — Yorgos Lanthimos Actor Copy Share Image
I haven't been a director-for-hire for any project. I work with people who appreciate that, understand that, and want to work that… — Yorgos Lanthimos Director Copy Share Image
Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence. — Yorgos Lanthimos Behavior Copy Share Image
