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Penelope Spheeris

"When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them."

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"When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them."

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"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."
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"I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world."
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"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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"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."
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