Harmony Korine

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.

— Harmony Korine

I just wanted it to be American.

— Harmony Korine

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

— Harmony Korine

Gucci Mane is trap rap's Frank Sinatra.

— Harmony Korine

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.

— Harmony Korine

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

— Harmony Korine

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

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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part…

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

— Harmony Korine

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

— Harmony Korine

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

— Harmony Korine

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

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It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All…

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Often the biggest dreamers get hurt the most. They were pure in their insanity and in their isolation. They were living the…

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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long…

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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that…

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I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on…

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I've always been pulled toward people who can't seem to make anything fit. It's like a cinema of isolation, of loneliness. They…

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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible…

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After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is…

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I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's…

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Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only…

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A lot of times you can write a scene with a specific song in mind, and then you lay it over the…

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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never…

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For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of…

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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain…

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Editing is fun for me. That's where you make things happen. Filming a movie, I just try to set things up and…

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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from…

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Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

— Harmony Korine

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

— Harmony Korine

I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.

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

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

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

— Harmony Korine

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

— Harmony Korine

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

— Harmony Korine

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

— Harmony Korine

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

— Harmony Korine

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

— Harmony Korine