Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

Nobody is sure what our culture is or whether we even have a national culture at all.

I don't really want the kind of Englishness that I have represented.

'Authentic' is one of my least favourite words because in such a diverse country, whose authenticity are you talking about?

People think that being Korean is all one thing.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

People look at me and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal.

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

I grew up in an environment with virtually no Hispanics where you see only people in your culture in custodial jobs. I had a messed up image of what we bring to this nation. My father was known as a pioneering figure in Cuban music, but I still associated him with everything that was negative in my neighborhood. I could not have been more mistaken.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

As soon as I came to L.A., I was told that I was exotic. I'd think, But I'm from Miami! I'm as American as a cheeseburger!

Coming from a different perspective on a society is really interesting. I love the Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread,' and that's a version of Britishness and Englishness made by an American.

When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.

Sometimes I struggle with being American.

In England, we've spent a bit of time being lost as to what our modern identity is.

I realized I'm a very, very white dancer.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.