Harmony Korine Quotes

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I am very interested in behind the scenes, and I am very creative.

I became passionate about filmmaking. The thrill to make something out of nothing and to go out there to see whether it will work or not attracted me.

Talent works, genius creates.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I'm interested in creating new work.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.

For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

Signature film-making seems rather dull to me; it's about finding something you can do something with and running with the ball.

Good films that get made are so few and far between. I want to write and direct more, but only so I can keep a fresh perspective.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Making a movie is casting a spell.