Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

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

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

I love working with film, whether it's the technical side, the acting side, or the musical side.

I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.