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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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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