Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

Even though you strive for perfection, you're never going to play the perfect game.

The problem with people is that no matter how good you are at what you do, it's never enough for them. There will always be someone to point out some flaw. Someone will always find something lacking in you.

I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's no perfect man.

Am I perfect? No. Do I want to be perfect? No, because if I were perfect, I would be a reporter.

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

I'm against the ways of the world where people feel like they need to always make things too perfect.

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

When you look back at your own story, you may find out that not every 't' was crossed and every 'i' was dotted.

Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters in the book as opposed to hypothetical situations, or as opposed to opening up about themselves, unless they really want to.

I haven't been perfect.

To me, great writing - and when you can really make something wonderful out of it as an actor - is when your character has a sense of self-awareness. It doesn't necessarily have to arc. It doesn't have to grow.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

Nobody's perfect from a player to the media to fans.

Every person is flawed. Do you think perfection exists? You, me, everyone - we have strengths and shortcomings; that's what makes us human.

I haven't been near perfect by any means. In fact, I've got a list of things I want to do better.

No one's game's perfect.

I like to go to the movies and watch characters who make me question how I see the world.

I have plenty of improving to do.

Flaws are really interesting.

Imagining what a character will do in a given situation - it's like an equation, and working it out is a marathon rather than a sprint.