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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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" 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. "

Harmony Korine

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Run

Myself

" 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 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. "

" 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 purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress. "

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

Harmony Korine

People

Laugh

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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

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