100 Quotes by Yorgos Lanthimos

Personal relationships, mood, chance, or anything like that can actually affect people's decisions, and when they're in a position of power, their capriciousness can affect the fate of a nation.

I feel kind of offended when I watch films, and everything is explained to me - you know, laying out how I should feel from one scene to the next.

It's hard for me to find a script that's perfectly suited to me, so even if it's a good script, I'll still have to work on it with someone and shape it, making it the film that I want to make. So in that respect, I prefer to do the stuff that I've generated anyway.

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious.

I did have a lot of years watching and appreciating dance and theater and all of those kind of things, and it has informed the way that I work with actors and the way I approach things.

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

Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriends, or objects of desire.

I make films to explore concepts and raise questions, not tell the audience what to think.