Larry Clark: "You know, I wanted to present the way kids see things, but without all this baggage, this morality that these old middle aged Hollywood guys bring to it. Kids don't think that way. You know, living for the moment ... Man, I just have to see this concert and I've just got to smoke this joint, go to this party. They're living in the moment not thinking about anything beyond that and that's what I wanted to catch. And I wanted the viewer to feel like you're there with them ... you can be there in the movie and have it all too".