The Best Harmony Korine quotes

I’ve never been into alternative, hipster rap music. — Harmony Korine

I don’t listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don’t listen to white people and guitars. — Harmony Korine

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

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. — Harmony Korine

I’ve just always liked watching people dance. I can’t explain it. It used to just make me laugh. — Harmony Korine

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

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that’s physical, that’s about a beat and bass and repetition. — Harmony Korine

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

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. — Harmony Korine

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

I never feel like there’s any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I’ve made. — Harmony Korine

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

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

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. — Harmony Korine

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. — Harmony Korine

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. — Harmony Korine

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

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. — Harmony Korine

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