Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?

Rules that are not stringently upheld are more likely to get broken.

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

Reward and punishment are the twin instruments of power in the State; they must not be revealed to anyone.

The rules are there for a reason.

Obviously, flagrant things have to be called. There are rules. You have got to play to the rules, no question.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

Today there's law and order in everything. You can't beat anybody for nothing. If you do beat anyone, it's got to be for the sake of order.

Punishment alone governs all created beings.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

If we don’t enforce the regulations we have, these conversations are useless.

I follow the roles.

Simply put, some people think they are above rules or even that rules are there to be broken. Once you start teaching that to your kids, this country is really in trouble.

I'm all about penalizing. I've got no issue with penalizing people who are taking over their allotted time.