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Penelope Spheeris

Penelope Spheeris (born December 2, 1945 or 1946; sources differ) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She has directed both documentary film and scripted films. Her best known works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization, each covering an aspect of Los Angeles underground culture, and the film Wayne's World, her highest-grossing film.

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

Aggravation, Decline, Found, Iii, Touch

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.

Writing, America, Should, Register, Potential

Different parents have different standards for their children.

Children, Different, Parent, Parents, Standards

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

Given, Growth, Inspirational, Marijuana, Survival, Teenage

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

Hollywood, Live, Nice, Three

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

Film, Form, Impossible, 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.

Breathing, Down, Million, Movie, People, Stake

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 so that people could interpret it as they wish.

Barmaid, Interpret, Mother, People, Trailer, Wish

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

Aggravation, Decline, Drug, Drugs, Funded, Studio

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

Actually, Aggravation, Copies, Flea Markets, Fleas, Picked

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.

Arnold, Directors, Takes, Three, Worked, Years

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.

Aggravation, Appreciation, Decline, Political, Punk, Sheer

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

Figure, Fun, Real, Things, Trying

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

Everyone, Teenager, Think, Thinking, World

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

Finance, Irs, Records

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

Bird, Common, Different, Society, Thinking, Time

What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

Family, Found, Human Nature, Interesting, Nature

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

Love, Metal, Punk, Punk Rock, Rocks

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

Actually, Believe, I Can, Movie, My Own