Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

It has happened many a times where I have taken a project and wasn't happy about it.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

I'm not satisfied with anything I do.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

Everything's not always perfect.

I can never tell if anything I do is really good. I'm always just slightly chagrined.

I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.

I've got so many weaknesses.

I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.

I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

It's tough never being right.

Being number two sucks.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

This is the history of failure.

I had some poor matches, but nobody's perfect.

I'm never happy with anything I've done! If you sat me down and played everything I've ever recorded, I'd just sit there going, 'No... that could be better.'

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

I don't watch my old films like 'Roja,' 'Dil Se' because I only see mistakes. I see five minutes of the film and I am scared I will start finding mistakes in them.

I felt terrible when I went to Roma because I hadn't fulfilled the expectations of the Florentines.

I hate all of my own matches. I hate all of my own work. I am my worst critic.

When I look back, I think I could have done this scene or that better. I am not satisfied with my work at all. I think I could have done better. I am never satisfied.