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"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."
"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."
"So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts."
"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."
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"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 of America."
"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."
"It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen."
"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."
"If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it."
"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."
"Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers."
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