top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more People quotes
"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."
"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."
"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
Explore more quotes by Penelope Spheeris
"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."
"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."
"I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world."
bottom of page