Cinema Quote by Yorgos Lanthimos

It was always hard to make films in Greece, but making them with friends made it possible.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

There are things to love about filmmaking in Greece. People are generous: If you get along well with others, the people around you will…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I used to be quite negative about going back to Greece and making something, but there is a certain kind of freedom that I've…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I never thought that I would ever actually get to make films. Being from Greece, it wasn't really a reality.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Having a couple of films that were successful internationally has made the film community aware of the films coming out of Greece.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I made three films in Greece, and they're made under very specific, very limited conditions.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Starting in Greece, you couldn't really say, 'I'm going to become a film-maker.' A 15-year-old boy in Greece in the '80s and '90s? There…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past…

— Vittorio De Sica

I think in general with micro-budget films right now, it's rough. The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to…

— Greta Gerwig

It's true that there are younger people making films, and there are different kinds of films. This has created some attention in what's coming…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days…

— Gary Oldman

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they…

— David Puttnam