“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.” ThinkingYearsLooksReasonWantedStuffScaredReason WhyThrough The YearsRetrospective Author:Larry Clark
“I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.” KnowsYearsI CanIdeasEndsHappensWantedPurposeLostInterestLosesHappenedChangedMy FriendsDown AndCamerasPhotographQuittingInnocentRepeatsPurityRealism Author:Larry Clark
“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.” YearsLooksRealAgeWantedFilmGrowing UpGrowingTheaterTeenagerTeenage Author:Larry Clark
“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.” IfsYearsEnoughRunningCamerasPhotographSkatesSkateboarder Author:Larry Clark
“If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.” IfsYearsBookStorytellerThrough The Years Author:Larry Clark
