Harmony Korine Quotes

"I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them."

"I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines."

"I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty."

"I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since."

"I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball."

"Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress."

"Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches."

"If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light."

"I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars."

"Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance."

"What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters."

"When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible."

"When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome."

"I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music."

"Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting."

"What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra."

"I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'"

"I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school."

"I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do."

"I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too."

"I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer."

"I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made."

"Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way."

"When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface."

"You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting."

"I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition."

"I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from."

"I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night."

"I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director."

"I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way."