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Penelope Spheeris

"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."

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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

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"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."

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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

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"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."

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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."

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"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."

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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."

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Penelope Spheeris
"In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here."

Family

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Penelope Spheeris
"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."

Money

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

Music

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Penelope Spheeris
"There are thousands of directors in Hollywood."

Hollywood

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Penelope Spheeris
"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."

Love

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Penelope Spheeris
"Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera."

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Penelope Spheeris
"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."

Money

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

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Penelope Spheeris
"I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood."

Hollywood

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

Money

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