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Checkout quotes by Yorgos Lanthimos on Work
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‟ I work very physically. I don't like to intellectualize too much about what we're doing, or analyze it.
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‟ I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep getting halfway, and then there's a lot of work, and I forget it, and I have to go back to the beginning.
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‟ I did have a lot of years watching and appreciating dance and theater and all of those kind of things, and it has informed the way that I work with actors and the way I approach things.
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‟ It's hard for me to find a script that's perfectly suited to me, so even if it's a good script, I'll still have to work on it with someone and shape it, making it the film that I want to make. So in that respect, I prefer to do the stuff that I've generated anyway.
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‟ I wouldn't know what to say about something that worked in a perfect way, so I guess, in everything, I try to find what doesn't work and expose it and then see how it relates to people and their stories and their character.
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‟ 'The Lobster' is very particular, and we did need to create a very specific world with specific rules so the whole premise would work.
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‟ The way I work, and the material we work with, I think if you analyze too much and have too many specific ideas, it just becomes a little bit too superficial, and then performances might become too self-conscious and project relatively narrow things.
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‟ I haven't been a director-for-hire for any project. I work with people who appreciate that, understand that, and want to work that way.
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‟ I will not become analytical about my work.
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‟ Rebellion is not always the right thing. Following the rules is not always the right thing. You have to think for yourself and identify the things that do not work for you.
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