What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

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

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

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

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.

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