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Harmony Korine

Profession : Director

Birth : September 1, 1974

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.

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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.

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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.

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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.

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I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.

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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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