A biography for Harmony Korinehasn’t been written yet.
“I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light.”
“Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.”
“Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.”
“I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'”
“I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.”
“Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.”
“Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.”
“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.”
“It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.”
“I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.”
“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.”
“I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.”
“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.”
“I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.”