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.

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.

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

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 got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

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

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

Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

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.

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

Whatever God does today will be as significant as the parting of the Red Sea.

Partners, ” she said, and fired two rounds into his head.

Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

Without memories, there can be no good or evil. It will exist only indifference!

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

Nothing can separate me from the love of God.

I have people close to me who ask my advice just as I ask theirs.

The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.