100 Quotes by Yorgos Lanthimos

Being extremely honest is quite funny. But there's no recipe or concept that I can bring up that fully defines what we find humorous. It's instinctive.

It's weird to try and identify a nationality for a film.

It's hard not to be political.

As long as I can make the films I want to make in decent conditions, I am happy.

I never think about it much, the visual aspect of it, until we start making the movie. I don't really think about it when we write. When we finish, and I start putting the film together, and we pick the locations, I do think about that a lot.

Everybody has a love/hate relationship with their own country.

Even today, I'm not sure why I make films or what makes me want films. I think it's other people's films. Whenever I see a really great film, I think, 'I want to make a film like that.' And then I never do.

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 experienced while I was making films in Greece that is hard to replicate elsewhere.

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 way.