Terry Richardson

It's insane, the Internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!