Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes
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.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.
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I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.
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Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
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But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
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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.
