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Penelope Spheeris

"There are thousands of directors in Hollywood."

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Donna Grant

"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."

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Donna Grant

"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."

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Donna Grant

"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."

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Donna Grant

"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."

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Donna Grant

"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."

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Donna Grant

"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."

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Donna Grant

"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."

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Donna Grant

"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."

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Donna Grant

"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."

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Donna Grant

"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."

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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
"Different parents have different standards for their children."

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Penelope Spheeris
"It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it."

Creativity

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Penelope Spheeris
"I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do."

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Penelope Spheeris
"Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact."

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

Hollywood

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

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