Director

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

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

Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

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

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

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.

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.

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.

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 love punk rock, but I also love metal.

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.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

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

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

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

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.

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.