'I care about my audience, but I never think about them while writing. You can't create anything if you think all the time: how can I please as many people as possible?' said Lanthimos in an interview with De Volkskrant. The king of the Greek weird wave is known for his outspokenly absurdist films, which are somewhere between a psychological thriller and a pitch-black comedy. He had his breakthrough on the international arthouse circuit in 2009 with festival hit Dogtooth.