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Yorgos Lanthimos
Yorgos Lanthimos
Greek Director
Born: 1973
Films Me People Think Work You
Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
The first time I was paid was with 'The Lobster,' because with the Greek films, we just had to pay ourselves - work for free while making commercials in order to survive. Yorgos Lanthimos
Work Time Free First Pay Films Lobster Ourselves Had Because First Time Making Greek Survive Commercials Just Order While To Survive Paid
I am not interested in representing reality. Actually, I am interested in representing reality, but that doesn't mean a naturalistic approach, which I think is kind of impossible. Yorgos Lanthimos
Reality Impossible Think Approach Kind Am Representing Not Interested Which Interested Mean Naturalistic Actually
In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance. Yorgos Lanthimos
Language Transformation Performance Like Goes Film 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
Today Cinema Strict Considered Rules Follow Weird Commercial Whenever Conventional Film Letter
I think children are really violent with each other often. Yorgos Lanthimos
Think Other Often Children Really Each Violent
The most important thing is to allow gaps and openings for people to make up their own minds - I don't want my film to be pretending to have one important truth to tell anyone. Yorgos Lanthimos
Truth People Pretending Important Own Minds Tell Allow Openings Most Most Important Thing Make Make Up Important Thing Up The Most Important Want Anyone Gaps Film Thing
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. Yorgos Lanthimos
Me You Offended Films Everything Out Kind Scene Laying Feel Know How Explained Next Should Watch
If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious. Yorgos Lanthimos
Smart Too Way Scene Self-Conscious Becomes Context Trying Convey Actor
Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriends, or objects of desire. Yorgos Lanthimos
Women Seen Gaze Girlfriends Objects Through Most Housewives Male Women Are Times Often Shown Desire
Everybody has a love/hate relationship with their own country. Yorgos Lanthimos
Relationship Country Own Everybody
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. Yorgos Lanthimos
Freedom Negative Films Elsewhere Back Kind About Something Making Greece Replicate Going Quite Experienced While Certain Used Hard
I think you can be much truer to real emotions and reality by creating something that on the surface seems artificial but, by then putting everything together in the end, is much more impactful than trying to use realism in every individual element of the film. Yorgos Lanthimos
You Together Reality Emotions Every Think Everything Seems Something More Individual Putting Surface Real Truer End Than Trying Artificial In The End Realism Then Much Creating Use Element Film
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 do - to provoke thought and discussion and, you know, shake people up to start thinking about things in a different way. I'm interested in messing with what they think is the norm. Yorgos Lanthimos
You People Thought Think Thinking Defensive Way Exactly About Shake Know Messing Norm End Up Provocative Provoke Discussion Trying Different In The End Realised Interested Used Different Way Right Things Start
Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence. Yorgos Lanthimos
Behavior Whatever Society Way Telling Existence So Many Different Things Human Human Behavior Different Story Exploring Many Different Things Things
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 was nothing like that happening. Yorgos Lanthimos
You Become Nothing Say Like Boy Greece Going Happening Really Starting
I think I do things that are more common in theatre. Yorgos Lanthimos
Theatre Think More Common Things
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. Yorgos Lanthimos
Work Dance Appreciating Approach Way Those Kind Years Lot Did Theater Informed Actor Things Watching
Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment. Yorgos Lanthimos
People Sometimes Rules Punishment Having Break Them Means
I either enjoy things or not. And things either make me think, or they don't. Or they mess with me, and I feel awkward. Yorgos Lanthimos
Me Enjoy Think Feel Mess Make Either Things Awkward
As an audience member myself, I love to be in a position where I'm trying to figure out what I am supposed to feel or if what I'm feeling is appropriate or not. Yorgos Lanthimos
Love Myself Feeling Appropriate Member Out Feel Supposed Audience Audience Member Am Trying Where Figure Position
I am calm but on the outside, mostly. When I'm on a film set, the stress is so humongous that I'm dying inside - I'm extremely stressed, but I do try, and... well, I don't try. I think it's my natural reaction to not externalize things. Yorgos Lanthimos
Natural Try Stress Calm Think Extremely Inside Outside Reaction Well Mostly Am Dying Film Things Film Set Stressed Set
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. Yorgos Lanthimos
Together Think Locations Visual About Finish Write Never Pick Putting Until Making Lot Movie Much Really Aspect Film Start
'The Lobster' is very particular, and we did need to create a very specific world with specific rules so the whole premise would work. Yorgos Lanthimos
Work World Lobster Rules Would Particular Very Did Create Premise Whole Specific Need
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