I've always been pulled toward people who can't seem to make anything fit. It's like a cinema of isolation, of loneliness. They go outside the system and create their own society to develop their obsession to an insane degree. Harmony Korine More Quotes by Harmony Korine More Quotes From Harmony Korine Often the biggest dreamers get hurt the most. They were pure in their insanity and in their isolation. They were living the dream amongst themselves and didn’t realize it. It’s when they invited the public inside their world that everything went wrong. Harmony Korine hurt dream insanity I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense. Harmony Korine nonsense perfect wanted Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead. Harmony Korine life-is-great illusion beautiful After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal. Harmony Korine birth cinema years I like things that are never one way. Usually, emotionally, I make the films based on a type of energy. I try to work with things that are more difficult to articulate. And so, that's more of a feeling. And so, the things that have attracted me are more of the things that are morally complicated or emotionally complicated. Harmony Korine feelings trying way For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life. Harmony Korine silence laughing people I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers. Harmony Korine answers want desire A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone. Harmony Korine economic moral judging Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only purely in the moment. It's an idea that you plant before. It's a location that you show. It's something I whisper in someone's ear. It's a freeform thing. It only takes me a week to write the script, but it's years that you're thinking about it. The execution is really the fast part. Harmony Korine writing years thinking 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. Harmony Korine rap way interesting If Richard Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the 'Great Art Form' would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. Harmony Korine talking today art 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. Harmony Korine color character ideas Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way. Harmony Korine kind sometimes people 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. That was the thing about vaudeville: You didn't have to worry about the beginning and ends of these things. Harmony Korine scene worry fall 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. Harmony Korine mean people thinking 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. Harmony Korine degrees musician two Gucci Mane is trap rap's Frank Sinatra. Harmony Korine gucci traps rap I just wanted it to be American. Harmony Korine wanted What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters. Harmony Korine film remember character 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
