Penelope Spheeris Quotes

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• Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows.
• 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…
• Big studio comedies are such a headache.
• Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and…
• Different parents have different standards for their children.
• 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 at…
• I can't believe I actually was in my own movie.
• I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.
• I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.
• I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.
• Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.
• When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.
• 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…
• I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
• 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…
• I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
• Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.
• 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…
• This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.
• I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

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