Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.

The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.

The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'

A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?

I'm anti-verite. I think the verite style is a completely false thing. Most things are false to arrive at a truth; verite is falsity without acknowledging its falsity.

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

I personally think montages are one of movies' great gifts to everyone. I think they're so much fun and so effective when done right.

My favorite films left the camera rest, and the actors and characters have a stage to act. Move the camera when it's motivating.

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.

I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.

Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information".

What I like about their films is that you actually feel the momentum of whatever they're shooting. So, if someone's falling out a window, it gives the opportunity to show what that might feel like.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

I think the hardest thing about the part is the responsibility that you feel playing something that is so real and resonant in our times. There are people coming home right now with those stories, and I'm just an actress pretending to be that person. You hope that you can shed some light on somebody's predicament.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.