Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheerisis an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization. She has directed feature films, including Wayne's World, her highest grossing film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 December 1945
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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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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I worked for the studios, making those comedies, and I found I could make enough money then to be able to do the work I was passionate about.
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It used to be that people would try to achieve financial success with their art, to make themselves comfortable, accumulate possessions.
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Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.
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It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.
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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 love punk rock, but I also love metal.
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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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I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
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Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.
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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.