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

Penelope Spheeris

Music

World

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

Penelope Spheeris

Growth

Survival

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

Penelope Spheeris

Protection

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.

Penelope Spheeris

Thought

World

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.

Penelope Spheeris

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.

Penelope Spheeris

Fans

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