Harmony Korine Net Worth

Harmony Korine's Quotes

• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
• If Richard 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.
• [on meeting David Blaine] The first time I hung out with him, he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven [inside], and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees, or something like that, and he stayed in it for, I guess, a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that.
• After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.
• I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense. I wanted to tell jokes, but I didn't give a fuck about the punch line.

Interesting Facts about Harmony Korine

1. Directed the video for Sonic Youth's "Sunday" starring Macaulay Culkin and Rachel Miner.
2. His father, Sol Korine, made documentary films in Georgia for PBS.
3. Wrote lyrics with Björk for her song "Harm of Will" from the album "Vespertine".
4. Has claimed that The Basketball Diaries (1995) author Jim Carroll was in attendance at his birth and cut his umbilical cord. (Carroll was living in Bolinas at the time, as indicated in his book 'Forced Entries'.) Carroll and Korine are now friends and collaborators.
5. Attended high school at Hillsboro High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
6. Attended film school at NYU but dropped out after only one semester.
7. Has a tattoo of a trident on his right hand.
8. Briefly changed his name to Laird Henn. It never stuck, but there is a song by the band Sun City Girls that contains a phone message left by Harmony on one of the members' answering machines, where he introduces himself as Laird Henn.
9. His parents live in Panama, which is why he chose to film sections of Mister Lonely (2007) within that country.
10. Has one daughter with wife Rachel Korine, Lefty Bell Korine.
11. Named his top ten favorite films of all time in a December 1999 issue of Dazed & Confused: Pixote (1981), Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978), Fat City (1972), Stroszek (1977), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Out of the Blue (1980) and Je vous salue, Marie (1985).
12. Brother of Avi Korine.
13. Has an unfinished "slapstick comedy" film in which he goads bigger men into getting into fights with him. Korine says it consists "entirely of me getting beat up".
14. In 1997, Janet Maslin of The New York Times called his movie Gummo (1997) the worst film of the year.
15. Readily admits that he was often stoned when he appeared on David Letterman's show during the mid-1990s, when he felt like he 'was a kid'.
16. In 2013, while James Franco was promoting the Korine-directed Spring Breakers, Franco asked David Letterman to comment on the rumor that Korine had been banned from appearing on Letterman's talk show during the late 1990s. After demurring, Letterman finally confirmed that Korine had indeed been banned, and revealed the reason why: Meryl Streep was also a guest on the same day that Korine was scheduled to be on, and Letterman said that he "went upstairs to greet Meryl Streep and say 'welcome to the show,' and I [knock on the door]...and she was not in there. And I looked around, and I found...Harmony going through her purse. True story. And so I said, 'Okay, that's it, put her things back in her bag and then get out.'".
17. His paternal grandparents were Iraqi Jews, from Baghdad. His mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.