H Korine Quotes & Sayings

When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. — Harmony Korine

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. — Harmony Korine

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

There are a lot of people who are successful and have a lot of money, but you can almost see their limitations because they have these walls around them. Harmony Korine exceeds those walls, and those are the types of people who go on to exceed people's expectations. — Riff Raff

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. — Harmony Korine

I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness. — Harmony Korine

My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me. — Harmony Korine

I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way. — Harmony Korine

As an actress and just as a person, I've kind of been in a little bit of a bubble. So it was so great for me to see where I could go as an actress and to be around incredible people who are much more experienced than I am, like Harmony [Korine], James [Franco], and Vanessa [Hudgens]. — Selena Gomez

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

Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory. — 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

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

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. — Harmony Korine

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

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

I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009 film] forever? — Josh Smith

Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking. — Harmony Korine

I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope. — Harmony Korine

I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them. — Harmony Korine

Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice. — Harmony Korine

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

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

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. — Harmony Korine

When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules. — Harmony Korine

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. — Harmony Korine

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters. — 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 was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so ... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony. — Harmony Korine

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