"I was making commercials. That's how I learned the craft. That was the marketing part of it: directing commercial for TV. It wasn't the most common thing to become a filmmaker in Greece. I started by saying I was interested in marketing and have a proper job in advertising and commercials. Basically, I studied film to learn how to do marketing, and commercials. As I studied film I learned I'd be interested in making films instead of commercials."

-- Yorgos Lanthimos

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“A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.”
“The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.”

Source : Richard Alleine (1836). “Heaven opened; or, A brief and plain discovery of the riches of God's covenant of grace”, p.350
“Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.”
“What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.”
“Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.”
“Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems.”

Source : Sandra Postel (1985). “Conserving water: the untapped alternative”, Worldwatch Inst
“I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be"Â tes l'ont mangeÂ . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.”

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