Latest Harmony Korine Quotes from Interviews

• Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

  Harmony Korine

  Moving, Athletic, Skateboarding

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I just haven't let myself get to a place where I've felt a part of any kind of a community, so I've always stayed outside of it.

  Harmony Korine

  Community, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Harmony Korine

  People, Kind, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

• For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there. It's not even about making perfect sense - it's more about making perfect nonsense. I don't do too much soul-searching or self-analysis. I just enjoy making things.

  Harmony Korine

  Perfect, Kind, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I like working with family and friends and people I admire. All my movies are filled with family members of some capacity. I think it means more when you have a personal relationship with someone.

  Harmony Korine

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Spaceman 3 was one of my favorite bands growing up, and Jason Spaceman is someone I got along well with. I always felt his music was like narcotic gospel - there's something very moody and ethereal about it. Sun City Girls is the same, but different. To me, they're like the premier American avant music act. They're like the Marx brothers of music. I don't mean they're funny like that, but they turn everything on its head.

  Harmony Korine

  Girl, Brother, Growing Up

  Source: www.avclub.com

• A lot of times you can write a scene with a specific song in mind, and then you lay it over the image, and it kills it. I can never figure out why certain music works. Some music you listen to and say, "Man, that would be great for a movie." But when you try it, it's horrible, because the music itself is cinematic. The weight of it kills the image.

  Harmony Korine

  Song, Writing, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Editing is fun for me. That's where you make things happen. Filming a movie, I just try to set things up and see where it goes. Editing is a puzzle. I often don't even know what I'm trying to say. I'm just trying to make myself laugh. That's it. It's musical, or something.

  Harmony Korine

  Fun, Laughing, Musical

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

  Harmony Korine

  Film, Odd, Difficult

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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 go outside the system and create their own society to develop their obsession to an insane degree.

  Harmony Korine

  Loneliness, People, Insane

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene. That was the thing about vaudeville: You didn't have to worry about the beginning and ends of these things.

  Harmony Korine

  Fall, Worry, Scene

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh. Sometimes you can tell a lot about a person by the way they shake their ass.

  Harmony Korine

  People, Laughing, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Gucci Mane is trap rap's Frank Sinatra.

  Harmony Korine

  Rap, Gucci, Traps

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. March 21, 2013.

• 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.

  Harmony Korine

  Rap, Interesting, Way

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. March 21, 2013.

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

  Harmony Korine

  Hipster, Rap, Alternatives

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. March 21, 2013.

• I like things that are never one way. Usually, emotionally, I make the films based on a type of energy. I try to work with things that are more difficult to articulate. And so, that's more of a feeling. And so, the things that have attracted me are more of the things that are morally complicated or emotionally complicated.

  Harmony Korine

  Feelings, Trying, Way

• For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.

  Harmony Korine

  People, Laughing, Silence

• Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only purely in the moment. It's an idea that you plant before. It's a location that you show. It's something I whisper in someone's ear. It's a freeform thing. It only takes me a week to write the script, but it's years that you're thinking about it. The execution is really the fast part.

  Harmony Korine

  Writing, Thinking, Years

• I see things in a specific way. All the films are different. There are specific characters and scenes and locations and ideas. There are colors I want to see. There are movements and things ... The films are different, but the approach is the same.

  Harmony Korine

  Character, Color, Ideas

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