Top 29 Quotes by Penelope Spheeris

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

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

I can't believe I actually was in my own movie.

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

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.

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

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 say, Ok, that's it, we're done.