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

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.

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.

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

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

If I could make a decent living doing documentaries, I would. I don't really care about [the other] stuff so much. But you can't make a living doing documentaries. Although it has affected my work, at least in that I think I make fairly realistic-looking pictures.

I feel that a documentarian has an obligation to tell the truth as he or she interprets it. And what I mean by that is that documentarians don't necessarily have the same sort of obligations that a journalist might have. A journalist might be called upon to be objective, whereas a documentarian is sort of forced to take sides.