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

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" 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. "

" It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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'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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "