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" 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. "

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" 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

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Rules

" I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball. "

" 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. "

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

Harmony Korine

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Filmmaking

" If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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Loved

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Harmony Korine

Romantic

Child

" 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. "

Harmony Korine

Laugh

Remember

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Harmony Korine

Never

Feel

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines. "

" 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. "

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

Harmony Korine

Never

Beat

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface. "