Top 29 Quotes by Penelope Spheeris

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.

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

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.

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.

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

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.

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.

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

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.