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
blows mind
It blows his mind, my mind, his wife's mind.
arm cost
I think it's going to cost an arm and leg.
title win
I'd like to win one more title to make it an even dozen,
best telling
He has a way of telling stories, one of the best I've ever heard.
building early forward looking searching strengths
However, it's early in the season, so we are still searching for our strengths and weaknesses. We're looking forward to building on this.
kids
I was over self-medicating back when I was a kid and didn't know it.
speed
When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.
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.