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• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  Uncertainty helps keep actors on edge.

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  If you use music boldly at the front of a scene, it creates another level.

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  Anytime people see an emotion that is not extremely emotional, they call it 'deadpan.'

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  Most acting is very melodramatic. It's not what you see in people.

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  There are things to love about filmmaking in Greece. People are generous: If you get along well wit

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  I never knew that I would even be making English-language films.

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  I don't make long-term plans, for sure.

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  I enjoy sometimes focusing on a character in a scene that's not actually doing the main action or t

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

• Yorgos Lanthimos:

  In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.