Harmony Korine Quotes

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

I remember walking into the editing room when I was a junior in college, and I watched the guy make cuts, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. He was just putting these shots together and telling the story, and it was amazing.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been.

I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.

I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

In making films, you're dealing with hundreds of people and a crew, but eventually, it's you and an editor, and that part of it, I liked it a lot. The experience on 'Up in Smoke' was great. I really enjoyed it.

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.