I worked for the studios, making those comedies, and I found I could make enough money then to be able to do the work I was passionate about.
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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.Penelope Spheeris
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.
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I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.
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Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.
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It used to be that people would try to achieve financial success with their art, to make themselves comfortable, accumulate possessions.
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I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
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