I feel kind of offended when I watch films, and everything is explained to me - you know, laying out how I should feel from one scene to the next.

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• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-con

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriend

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  For me, filmmaking is not about making statements but about exposing human behavior so people are e

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  I make films to explore concepts and raise questions, not tell the audience what to think.

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  It's weird to try and identify a nationality for a film.

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  As long as I can make the films I want to make in decent conditions, I am happy.

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  Everybody has a love/hate relationship with their own country.

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whateve