The movie starts with a dog that's impaled on a satellite on someone's house. The main actor's name is Tumler, and I saw him on an episode of Sally Jesse Rafael. It was called, "My Child Died From Sniffing Paint." I wanted to make a different kind of movie, because I don't see cinema on the same kind of terms or the same way that narrative movies have been made for the past hundred years. I grew up in Nashville in Tennessee, and I wanted to make a different film. It's not really one story. I don't care about plots. I think in every movie there needs to be a beginning, middle and end, but just not in that order; and when I watch movies, the only thing I really remember are characters and specific scenes. So I wanted to make a film-making system entirely of that, really random. It's just more like about specific scenes. I wanted to see moving images coming from all directions. -- Harmony Korine on making Gummo Back to Harmony Korine © 1999, Pavement Magazine, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.