Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

What some folks find funny, other folks find tragic.

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.

What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn't scary to me. It's like comedy - comedy and horror are quite similar, in that there'll always be somebody who'll say, 'I don't think that was funny.' And it's the same with things that are meant to be scary.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

Many mothers or daughters assume that words only mean one thing. 'If I feel criticised, that has to be the whole story', and 'if I feel I am being helpful, that has to be the whole story'.

It's obvious some people don't have an emotional thing for the music.

When you listen to music, you listen to music. You like it very much or not.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

Until I was about 13, somehow I managed to assume that everyone reacted to everything just about as I did. I took it for granted that everyone shared my passion for overcast skies. It came as quite a shock when I discovered that there were actually people who preferred sunshine.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will think; it is of no concern to us.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.

What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.