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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. "

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Harmony Korine

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Way

Sometimes

" 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.' "

" 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 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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 do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry. "

" 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've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything. "

Harmony Korine

Never

Anything

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Harmony Korine

Bureaucracy

Filmmaking

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. "

" 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 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 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

End

Loved

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

Harmony Korine

People

Laugh

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