Harmony Korine Quotes

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• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
• If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include…
• A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find…
• I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.
• I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.
• Often the biggest dreamers get hurt the most. They were pure in their insanity and in their isolation. They were living the dream amongst themselves…
• After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the…
• The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled…
• 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…
• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence…
• 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…
• I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
• I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
• 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…
• Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
• Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema -…
• I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
• My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.

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