American - Director | September 1, 1974 -
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.
Harmony Korine
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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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Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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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 - 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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