Quotes by Harmony Korine

“What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.”

A scientist shouldnt be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but its like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

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

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

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 didnt like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. Its like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and theres beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

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.

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

“A scientist shouldnt be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.”