Quotes About Yorgos Lanthimos

'The Lobster,' at some point, was my most accessible film. Then I made 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer,' which turned out to be not as accessible as 'The Lobster.' It was the film I wanted to make and the story I wanted to tell.

'The Lobster' is very particular, and we did need to create a very specific world with specific rules so the whole premise would work.

I've played around with the notion of making a series on the premise of 'Alps' because it's one of the films no one saw.

In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film, I still want it to have the more cynical view of things, showing the irony and absurdity of things that we consider normal.

When I read the script it was extraordinary and to work with Yorgos [Lanthimos] again was amazing.

By employing a certain sense of humor, you essentially get more serious about things and show conflict more effectively than if you were overly dramatic or only violent because that's a one-way approach that just forces audiences to watch something appalling.