List of Harmony Korine Quotes

A Lot Of Times You Can Write A Scene With A Specific Song In Mind, And Then You Lay It Over The Image, And It Kills It. I Can Never Figure Out Why Certain Music Works. Some Music You Listen To And Say, "man, That Would Be Great For A Movie." But When You Try It, It's Horrible, Because The Music Itself Is Cinematic. The Weight Of It Kills The Image.

Even Gene Kelly: I Always Preferred Him To Fred Astaire, Just Because He Was More Athletic, Like Skateboarding. His Leaps Were Big. There Was Something Really Great About His Moves.

Editing Is Fun For Me. That's Where You Make Things Happen. Filming A Movie, I Just Try To Set Things Up And See Where It Goes. Editing Is A Puzzle. I Often Don't Even Know What I'm Trying To Say. I'm Just Trying To Make Myself Laugh. That's It. It's Musical, Or Something.

I've Never Been Into Alternative, Hipster Rap Music.

I Like Working With Family And Friends And People I Admire. All My Movies Are Filled With Family Members Of Some Capacity. I Think It Means More When You Have A Personal Relationship With Someone.

Spaceman 3 Was One Of My Favorite Bands Growing Up, And Jason Spaceman Is Someone I Got Along Well With. I Always Felt His Music Was Like Narcotic Gospel - There's Something Very Moody And Ethereal About It. Sun City Girls Is The Same, But Different. To Me, They're Like The Premier American Avant Music Act. They're Like The Marx Brothers Of Music. I Don't Mean They're Funny Like That, But They Turn Everything On Its Head.

I Just Wanted It To Be American.

What I Remember Myself From Films, And What I Love About Films, Is Specific Scenes And Characters.

The First Time I Hung Out With [david Blaine], He Took Me To This Condemned Building, And It Had A Pizza Oven And He Crawled Into The Pizza Oven And Turned The Heat On To 400 Degrees Or Something Like That, And He Stayed In It For I Guess A Half Hour. He Came Out, And Except For One Or Two Second-degree Burns, He Was Unscathed. You Meet A Lot Of Musicians And Filmmakers And Actors, But It's Rare To Meet Someone Who Can Step Inside A Pizza Oven And Take The Heat. I Was Intrigued By That.

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 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 See Things In A Specific Way. All The Films Are Different. There Are Specific Characters And Scenes And Locations And Ideas. There Are Colors I Want To See. There Are Movements And Things ... The Films Are Different, But The Approach Is The Same.