Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

Greece, Actor
1973

Georgios "Yorgos" Lanthimos (born 1973) is a Greek film, video and theatre director, producer, and screenwriter. As of 2019, he has received three Academy Award nominations, Best Original Screenplay (The Lobster), Best Picture and Best Director (The Favourite), and his film Dogtooth was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film representing Greece.

I'm planning some films in the U.K., and it will have pros and cons. It takes a lot more time to set up a film in the U.K., because you can't rely on much. In Greece, friends show up and bring what they can and you make the film. Well, that's a bit simpler than how it really is. But when you make a film with proper industries, it takes more time to synch all these things.

Yorgos Lanthimos
- Film
- Planning
- Rely
I was making commercials. That's how I learned the craft. That was the marketing part of it: directing commercial for TV. It wasn't the most common thing to become a filmmaker in Greece. I started by saying I was interested in marketing and have a proper job in advertising and commercials. Basically, I studied film to learn how to do marketing, and commercials. As I studied film I learned I'd be interested in making films instead of commercials.

Yorgos Lanthimos
- Film
- Common
- Marketing