Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films.

I didn't make movies when I was a kid, but I loved them. That was considered a far-fetched dream.

It wasn't something that I really wanted or had dreamed about. Because of your socioeconomic status or your culture, you think you can't aspire to be an actress, and to participate in this medium, that sounds like a fantasy.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.

When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

In my perfect world, I go off and make films, and then come home to my farm.

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

I dreamt of playing for Lancashire then but never really thought it would happen.

I know it's a stock answer, but besides acting, I'd love to produce and direct.

I've been producing projects, and I hope that It's inevitable one day that I direct a film. I have a lot of things I want to do.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.