Penelope Spheeris Director Quotations

Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 used to be that people would try to achieve financial success with their art, to make themselves comfortable, accumulate possessions.

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.