Harmony Korine Quotes
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 think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
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We did a really cool video for this song [Milquetoast] with Alex Winter from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure fame. He's an extremely intelligent guy. Butch Vig also did a mix for The Crow movie.
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.
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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.
