Larry Clark had a hard time acquiring the funding for this movie but with the up-and-coming Bijou Phillips in the leading female role, the financiers finally agreed. But he has little to no respect for the actress. "Of all people, we got the go ahead with Bijou," Clark said, recalling his incredulity. "She was like the Paris Hilton before Paris Hilton. She was a club kid who was 15 years old out there in all the clubs. Fifteen years old, fucking everybody, producers that I know, all men and shit were fucking her. Everybody was fucking her and I just found it disgusting, man. And the first time I met her, she came to me in this club and sat down next to me, put her arm around me, took my cigarette out of my mouth and started smoking it. And she started talking to me, hugging me and kinda feeling me up. She hadn't acted, but that name - because she was in the paper every day for being a club kid and doing nothing - that name got us the money to get financed."
Larry Clark had a hard time acquiring the funding for this movie but with the up-and-coming Bijou Phillips in the leading female role, the financiers finally agreed. But he has little to no respect for the actress. "Of all people, we got the go ahead with Bijou," Clark said, recalling his incredulity. "She was like the Paris Hilton before Paris Hilton. She was a club kid who was 15 years old out there in all the clubs. Fifteen years old, fucking everybody, producers that I know, all men and shit were fucking her. Everybody was fucking her and I just found it disgusting, man. And the first time I met her, she came to me in this club and sat down next to me, put her arm around me, took my cigarette out of my mouth and started smoking it. And she started talking to me, hugging me and kinda feeling me up. She hadn't acted, but that name - because she was in the paper every day for being a club kid and doing nothing - that name got us the money to get financed."