Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

The best option that you can have as an actor is pure instinct and you should be able to protect your instinct. Information can either cloud your instinct or aid it.

I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them - and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It's always been like that, and I hope I won't be wrong in the future.

But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.

You just start going through that process of trying to put together a cast that works. I don't know that I can explain it in a way that you can go, 'Oh.' It's a little bit like saying, 'How would he be with him? How does that feel?'

When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

I don't really have a specific formula I follow to find the right script or role. It's always just very instinctive.

My gut told me 'Kanaa' was worth taking up, and it's a dream role for any actor.

Bill Murray, we've got to get people worthy to be on the screen with him, as opposed to just a bunch of random… with no disrespect… but a bunch of random local actors.

Auditioning is important, and I understand that. If there is somebody making a movie, if there is somebody manufacturing a movie, they want to look at the goods. I get it. I mean, I've been in that position.

I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.

For me, it's a feel thing; it's a mechanical thing.

I don't think you can predict success, but you get a feeling if something's going to be good or bad.

I follow my heart and my instinct about films and people.

I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.

Instincts are a really important guide for any artist, but particularly filmmakers because it takes a lot to stay true to your instincts as a storyteller.

We're finding that the casting of 'A Few Good Men' is different from the musicals because the kind of actors that you need to do it are movie actors, basically.

It is gut instinct that guides me when I say yes to a film.