Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

I think we are affected by others in all kinds of ways. I do understand what it's like to wish to control the conditions under which we can be affected by other human beings, but none of us really are.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Human beings don't want to just enjoy something by themselves. They want to share that emotion - they want everyone around them to enjoy it like they enjoy it or hate it like they hate it. That's what makes a video spread.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.

Peers often matter more than parents.

Society becomes how we behave.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.

When the audience reacts all together, it's genius. The audience is its own being in a way. It's a weird, amorphous beast that is also somehow a golden emperor that is also somehow every adult you've ever come across in your life who doesn't approve of you - all in one place.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.