Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

When I started out, I didn't know if I was ever going to make a movie.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.

I don't make projects; I make films.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love your subject.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I don't direct movies for a living.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.