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S7 EP8: Yorgos Lanthimos discusses working with Emma Stone, suffering for his art, and directing a Bourne movie

Explore episode Apr 20, 2026

You have to make so many decisions making something, either documentary or a narrative film, you make so many decisions thinking that you have some kind of control. But in reality, imagine how different people are and how they're going to perceive it in different ways.

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I think it's iconic. I think it's so funny. It's so stranger than fiction. If you wrote that down on a piece of paper, like a script in my life, I would be like, there's no way that's going to happen.

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