‘Wayne’s World’ Director Penelope Spheeris Is Done With Hollywood

Penelope Spheeris directed the fantastic punk-rock documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, a film that the Library of Congress deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” and Wayne’s World, one of the only good SNL movies. But after making Senseless, a movie co-produced by Harvey Weinstein, Spheeris realized she didn’t “want to do this anymore. In a wide-ranging interview with the AV Club, Spheeris opened up about the double standards women face in Hollywood.