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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'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'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

" 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 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. "