Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows.

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.

One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

Water is God's tranquilizer.

Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me.

I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.