Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their natural expression of the best they can possibly be comes out of them because there is no boundary to hold them back... That's the mentality that I'm trying to create, recreate and hold on to forever.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

I'm not in a certain type of genre, and I can't be categorized or pigeonholed. That leaves a wide range of what I can do for myself, for other people, and with other people.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I'm fine that way. I don't need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. When you're filming something, if you're improvising a film and you're wasting film and wasting a cameraman's time.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.

A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.