Penelope Spheeris

Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact.

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

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.

Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

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.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

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.

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.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

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.

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.

When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them.