Harmony Korine Quotes

I think back to my time when I was skating: I was 15, and there was no such thing as Instagram.

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

I remember, being young is a scary, wonderful feeling.

I wanted to be free to try any silly thing I decided to do.

I want adventure in my life. I want to do things I haven't done before. These Hollywood people are so careful of their image and looking right, but there's a wildness when I come into the photographs. I just want to wade through rivers, climb mountains.

Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

I was a bit of a wild boy - always swimming and exploring the mountains.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.

My parents, stupidly, always let me go downtown. This was pre-pager, even. It made me adventurous. I think it makes you tough.

When I was young, I was everywhere.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.