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In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

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

I think I do things that are more common in theatre.

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

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.

I just think it's interesting to start a dialogue.

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.

Provocative... I used to be defensive about it, but in the end, I realised it's exactly right. It's what we're trying to do - to provoke thought and discussion and, you know, shake people up to start thinking about things in a different way. I'm interested in messing with what they think is the norm.

I am not interested in representing reality. Actually, I am interested in representing reality, but that doesn't mean a naturalistic approach, which I think is kind of impossible.

I am calm but on the outside, mostly. When I'm on a film set, the stress is so humongous that I'm dying inside - I'm extremely stressed, but I do try, and... well, I don't try. I think it's my natural reaction to not externalize things.

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In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.