This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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