Decline Quotes by Penelope Spheeris

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…

— Penelope Spheeris

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen…

— Penelope Spheeris

Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

— Penelope Spheeris

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk…

— Penelope Spheeris

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

— Penelope Spheeris

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money…

— Penelope Spheeris

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

— Penelope Spheeris

It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.

— Penelope Spheeris

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

— Penelope Spheeris

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

— Penelope Spheeris

Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script,…

— Penelope Spheeris

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

— Penelope Spheeris