Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

I don't really plan ahead very far. I have never known what I'm doing more than a few pages ahead.

No, I never planned my life.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

I don't really plan. I just see what happens.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I don't make plans anymore. So I'm not living minute to minute.

No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

I am not a five-year-plan type. I tend to put one foot in front of the other and to allow things to unfold.

I take it season by season. I don't like looking too far ahead, because you never know what can happen.

I don't think too far ahead.

I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.

In this business, you can't make any plans.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.