Larry Clark
Larry Clark
Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clarkis an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for his controversial film Kidsand his photography book Tulsa. His most common subject is youth who casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex, and violence, and who are part of a specific subculture, such as surfing, punk rock or skateboarding...
ProfessionFilm Producer
Date of Birth19 January 1943
CityTulsa, OK
hills enough
I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera.
book storyteller
If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.
running enough photograph
If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera.
thinking years looks
I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.
teenage growing-up real
When I was growing up, all the films about teenagers were played by Tony Curtis or John Cassavetes when they were 27, 28 years old. We would see these teenage movies in the theaters and I would say, "They don't look like they're my age at all." So I wanted to make a movie that was real and I wanted to make a movie that wasn't about me.
philosophy real teenager
[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It was a real rebel position. It was kind of like a teenager's position: why can't things be like they should be? Why can't I do what I want? I latched on to that philosophy. One day I snapped, hey, you know, I know a story that no one's ever told, never seen, and I've lived it. It's my own story and my friends' story.
psychological-needs needs psychological
The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.
kids world today
I've wanted to make a film about French youth since I went to Cannes with my first film 'Kids' in 1995 ... Scribe's screenplay is about French kids today, and the world today. Just like my films 'Kids' and 'Ken Park', this will be a movie like you have never seen before.
photography done photographer
I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.
thinking psychics needs
I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody else had been doing this work, and if I could have seen these pictures anywhere at all, then there would have been no need to make them.
moving long people
I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.
lessons painting composition
My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.
my-favorite
My favorite color is green.
photography thinking artist
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.