Playboy.com: You also leave sex up to imagination in the scene when Jonathan hooks up with the rich private-school girl.

Clark: Yeah, the scene with the Beverly Hills girl, Laura Cellner. Her mother was at the set, and we were doing the scene where they're gonna have sex, but I'm not gonna really show anything. The mother says, "It's not even appropriate for her to even be lying in bed." I had to suggest that they're having sex with words, and not even dirty words. I took the mother in the other room and I told her the girl's line: "You're not circumcised." [Jonathan says] "Why? I'm Latino. Does it look different?" She says, "No, it looks dangerous." That's probably the most nervous I've ever been, of all the things I've done, telling this mother those lines. She just looked at me for about 45 seconds and said, "I can relate to that." So it was okay. So that's a great scene, and it gets a big laugh, and people are shocked, but there are no dirty words. You know exactly what they're doing and what she's looking at, but the imagination kicks in, and it's better than showing it.

Playboy.com: Any special requests during a Larry Clark audition to make sure your actors will be up to the more extreme scenes?

Clark: If there are scenes like that, I make it very clear. I'm always up-front, I'm not gonna play tricks on them. Everything is known in front. Sometimes they'll say, "Yeah, sure, no problem," but I know they're thinking, "I don't believe he'll really do this." [Laughs]

Playboy.com: Do you rehearse any of the more extreme scenes in advance?

Clark: Not really. On Bully we were running from scene to scene. I had to make it up as I went along, and I was like, "We're gonna do this." They were okay with it, because they trusted me. They have to have a lot of trust in me, and I have to have a lot of trust in them.

Playboy.com: How did Wassup Rockers come about?

Clark: I met these kids, and I wanted people to see them, because you never see kids like this in film. They're just trying to be kids, and they live in South Central, where the peer pressure is if you don't act all gangsta and wear baggy clothes and smoke pot, then something's wrong with you. You have to fight to be who you are. They live in gang-infested neighborhoods where there are shootings all the time. Just going to school, they can get shot.

Playboy.com: Where'd you meet the guys?

Clark: I was doing press for Ken Park. We were photographing Tiffany Limos in Venice Beach, and we met Porky and Kico. They had taken two buses and two trains to go skateboarding in this little skate park. Their shoes were falling apart, their boards had no pop, they had long hair and their clothes were too little. They were raggedy...but they had such style. I started photographing them with Tiffany, and then they took me and Tiffany and two French women from this magazine Rebel out to the ghetto.

Playboy.com: How much of Wassup Rockers is based on what really happened to these guys?

Clark: The first half. They have a garage band, except they didn't have a garage; it was in the bedroom. They're playing themselves -- maybe six months earlier, a year earlier. I had to make the movie right then, because they're growing up. I was trying to get that moment all of us go through. They're growing up, but they've still got one foot in childhood. They can still have fun like little kids. I'd take them skating and they'd talk about girls and things teenagers talk about, and then we walk into a park, and they would be on the merry-go-round and they wouldn't get off until everybody's sick. And then five seconds later, they're playing hot potato with Kico. I wanted to capture them as they were.