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

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

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

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

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

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.

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.