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. Harmony Korine More Quotes by Harmony Korine More Quotes From Harmony Korine 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. Harmony Korine skateboarding athletic moving 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 difficult film odd 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. Harmony Korine musical fun laughing 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. Harmony Korine growing-up girl brother 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. Harmony Korine writing song men I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music. Harmony Korine hipster alternatives rap I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh. Sometimes you can tell a lot about a person by the way they shake their ass. Harmony Korine sometimes laughing people For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there. It's not even about making perfect sense - it's more about making perfect nonsense. I don't do too much soul-searching or self-analysis. I just enjoy making things. Harmony Korine film kind perfect I just haven't let myself get to a place where I've felt a part of any kind of a community, so I've always stayed outside of it. Harmony Korine community kind 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. Harmony Korine good beauty life people 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. Harmony Korine street city lights night Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches. Harmony Korine looking day you world Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance. Harmony Korine game you sometimes people 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. Harmony Korine shoes white home people 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. Harmony Korine movies feel never myself 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. Harmony Korine feel place you mind 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 child me welcome romantic Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress. Harmony Korine progress cinema life death 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. Harmony Korine look think music morning What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra. Harmony Korine him just like gucci
