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

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.….

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

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

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,….

Big studio comedies are such a headache..

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

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

If I could make a decent living doing documentaries, I would. I don't really care about [the other] stuff so much. But you can't make a living doing ….

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 of them..

I love punk rock, but I also love metal..

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 th….

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

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

Different parents have different standards for their children..

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

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 o….

I feel that a documentarian has an obligation to tell the truth as he or she interprets it. And what I mean by that is that documentarians don't nece….

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 s….

Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows..

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