Harmony Korine Quotes:
What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra – it’s just him. He’s trap’s Frank Sinatra.
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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.
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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.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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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.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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I’ve started lots of books, but it’s hard for me to finish them.
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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 unread. It’s overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven’t been many people less literate than me that have been in ‘The Paris Review.’
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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.
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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.’
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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 things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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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.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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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 I find exciting.
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I’d always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
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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, too.
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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.
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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.
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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 of an industry.
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I’ve always – honestly – never thought of myself as an independent director.
Harmony Korine