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All Quotes by author - Penelope Spheeris
" Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done. "
Say
Done
Years
" Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America. "
Show
Producer
Potential
" Big studio comedies are such a headache. "
Studio
Big
Headache
" Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that. "
Money
Myself
Studio
" Different parents have different standards for their children. "
Children
Different
Parents
" For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck. "
Movies
Money
Down
" I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. "
Once
Without
Market
" I can't believe I actually was in my own movie. "
Own
My Own
Movie
" If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it. "
Looking
Fear
Never
" I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do. "
Got
IRS
Records
" I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood. "
Nice
Acres
Hollywood
" I love punk rock, but I also love metal. "
Also
Rock
Love
" In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here. "
Running
Here
Far Away
" I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world. "
Guilty
Feel
World
" It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't. "
Out
Real
Things
" It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it. "
Did
Movie
Idea
" It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen. "
Late
Wish
Rock
" I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world. "
Music
World
Way
" Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers. "
Me
Doing
Book
" Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about. "
Out
Nobody
III
" Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music. "
Go
Music
Now
" Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera. "
Fans
Camera
Were
" The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political. "
Appreciation
Music
Political
" There are thousands of directors in Hollywood. "
Hollywood
Directors
Thousands
" This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival. "
Growth
Generation
Up
" When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though. "
Money
Men
Imagine
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