“When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as he…” — Penelope Spheeris

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

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.