"'I'm interested more in the human behavior aspect than I am the music,' says Spheeris. 'I love the music, I document it, but it’s mostly "Why are people behaving this way?"' Most music documentaries, even great ones, take the actions of their subjects for granted: We don't really ask why the Stones or the Band or Talking Heads make music, we just assume they do it because they're the Stones and the Band and Talking Heads and because we're watching them. "
Jack Hamilton in Slate praises Penelope Spheeris's The Decline of Western Civilization documentaries.
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