American - Director | December 2, 1945 -
I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
Penelope Spheeris
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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.
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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.
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It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.
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It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.
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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.
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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.
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Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.
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Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.
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Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.
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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.
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There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.
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