Penelope Spheeris

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

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

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 stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

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.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.