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

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.

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

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

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.

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.

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