• "She's filled with rage but it's obviously pain that's fueling it. I get a litte touchy when people say, 'She's such a bitch!' This sounds dumb, but living that part was like going back to my own life and saying good-bye to it, because I had a lot of residual rage-and still do-against various situations that were forced upon to me."

• "The script was so much like I was when I was 15 - the physicality, the haircut. It was very strange. Same lipstick, wearing all black. Pretending she knew everything, but not sexuality. It was a fairly adventurous film! More an attitude of thinking she's putting on the iron, tough image to the world when it's really an eggshell she's wearing. Y'know, your basic really dysfunctional youth with good makeup."

• "As I got some strength back, I used up every ounce of it getting through The Doom Generation, which entailed working fifteen hours a day and doing sex scenes at seven in the morning before I went home. It was very hard, but what I appreciated about it was that it was boot camp for movies. It was sink or swim, and obviously I'm a survivor so I tried to swim as much as possible."

• "We shot in sequence and my rape scene was last, so I essentially had a nervous breakdown at the end of filming. If you shoot at night for a month with the type of people who live like that all the time, you begin to question your sanity."

• "The whole ending of the film starting with the raping and murdering is so metaphorical at that point: Jimmy obviously represents everything innocent and soft — and anyone with any dream or imagination in this society is doomed.... I can't speak for Xavier, but for me at the end during the rape scene, which was definitely the most difficult part for me to do in the film, even though Amy survives, I played it as if it was her death. Any part of her that was soft up until that point — a wall or veneer goes over it and dies. I think at the end it is saying how tough it is to live in this society, and in order to survive, that innocent part has to die so that the physical being can go on. It's such a beautiful moment at the end, even though it's resolved, it's peaceful after the horror and raucousness of what has gone on before, so at the end there's just quiet."

• "Yeah, people think that's what I'm like. They're surprised I have a vocabulary. I based Amy a little on what I was like at fifteen - my Bauhaus and Cure period, which I think every girl has to go through. I was wild: not sexually, just killing Quickiemart clerks, stuff like that. I'm subtler now, at least I like to think so, though I will occasionally wear hazard-yellow vinyl pants."

• "It's just like when Xavier licks the come off his hand, everyone gasped in shock at the press screening but then when we show it to a regular audience everyone is clapping and screaming — it's like a roller-coaster ride."

• "Both Jimmy and I wanted to make our sex scenes really sweet because it had to contrast the sex scenes between Xavier Red and me. And for me personally, it was a way of showing both sides of my character. Both Jimmy and I had a boyfriend and a girlfriend at the time, and we both thought that we were going to get into a lot of trouble — but then we both broke up with them before the film was finished so it doesn't matter."

• "There's this great line that I love which ended up being cut from the movie: 'Smiths fans always die young'."

• On meeting on co-stars
"When I was introduced to Jimmy and Johnathon, something just clicked. They looked at me and said, 'Hello Amy,' and it was a done deal. We started filming two days later."

• On Gregg Araki
"Gregg's the real deal. You can always tell when it's a 45-year-old studio guy writing something, thinking, all 17-year-olds are gonna love this."

• "Sit and spin!"

• "This place is so fucking boring. I wish someone would burn it to the ground."

• "I think sometimes this city is sucking away my soul."

• "There just is no place for us in this world."

• "He was an anus face!"

• "Eat my fuck."

• "What do you mean, 'everything's gonna be fine'? You just blew somebody's head off!"

• "Is this night of the living braindead? Wake up and smell the cappuccino, geek! I don't know you, I've never fucking seen you before, I don't know who the fuck this 'Sunshine' is!"

• "You're the bright red cherry on top of my sundae."

• "Rise and shine, monkeybutt!"

• "The world sucks."

• "I wish I could crawl in here and disappear forever."

• "Why don't you just do me a favor and evacuate!"

• "Life is lonely, boring and dumb."

• "When nature calls, it fucking hollers."

• Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1995.

• Marks Rose's first actual movie role.

• Gregg Araki wanted someone with a certain height, and skin color to play Amy Blue, he found that in Jordan Ladd, until her mom intervened. "I'd already started rehearsals and had my hair cut and dyed, and I woke up to my mom sitting on the foot of my bed crying and going, 'Sweetie, you can't do this movie. I don't think it's right.' She thought Gregg's material was too graphic." Araki didn't hold a grudge when the younger Ladd pulled out. In fact, two years later he cast her in his 1997 film Nowhere.

• Jordan's mother is actress Cheryl Ladd. In The Doom Generation credits, 'Special Thanks to' section, Jordan Ladd is listed. Farther down it says, 'A big no thanks to Cheryl Ladd'.

• Gregg had a hard time recasting Amy at short notice. Rose was visiting in Los Angeles and ran into a friend who worked with Gregg. She met with Gregg, he asked her if she could do it, she said "Of course I can." And the rest is history.

• In all the publicity pictures for the film, Rose is wearing a bobbed black wig. The pictures were taken after the film was made, and her hair had since grown.

• Rose says that Amy Blue is like a homage to her 15-year old self. She felt very defensive of the character.

• Rose was very depressed during the filming of the movie because of the death of her boyfriend. She says that she used some of that angst for the role.

• Every time one of the characters buys something, the total comes to $6.66. The address of the first hotel they stay at is 666. Amy's combined SAT score is 666.

• Amy is the only one who drives.

• The Doom Generation is the second chapter in Gregg Araki's "Teen Apocalypse Trilogy." The first was Totally Fucked Up and Nowhere the final one. James Duval was in all three, Rose McGowan in two.

• First day's photography was ruined in a lab accident and on the second day, the Northridge earthquake struck.