Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage. It is the job of the photographer to capture the drama of the performance.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

You can't stay away from the theater too long.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

I love theater. I really want to go back to it.

I love the theater, and I just don't love television like that.

My mum asked me what I prefer, and I said, 'I never miss film, but I miss theater.'

I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.

I'll always go back to the stage.

I'm addicted to acting.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.