 punks, new waivers, hippies, you've seen their chartreuse mohawks, cheeron dan acoroid and ghostbusters or slam dancing in suburbia and you wonder where did they all come from? Well these odd-looking individuals are real punks from the streets of Hollywood. Their link to the big time is punk scout master Janet Cunningham. Her agency cash handles the casting of punks, bikers, winos and hippies as extras in feature films. I just think it's a talent in people and I like to have people look at them and you know I put myself in the position to draw the attention. I guess to myself as a business person that they'll look beyond me to them because they're the ones that are, they're the ones who have the real talent. I just had the the fourth side or whatever to get in front and get the door open so they can run through. The image of punks by the media has always been negative, violent, destructive. Where I see them is humorous and creative. Let's see why they call them punks. Are you kidding? It looks like a room full of transfer. I guess because people are fascinated by violence or something where things that they don't understand so punks seem to be mysterious and violent and dangerous and I guess people want to see it. Part of the reason I even started doing this is that if it was going to happen it was I wanted it to happen with some degree of accuracy. And authenticity and enthusiasm is what musical comedy director Alan Arkes looks for when making a movie about punks. I knew from working with extras killed people what they're like and they don't really have much enthusiasm for their work. I mean who wants to make a lifetime career of that job? It's okay to do it for a while but you know they sit around in their little lounge chairs all day and every time you want to do something it's a big deal. And they certainly wouldn't understand the kind of music they were doing. What kind of people understand heavy metal and new wave music? The kind of people you don't want to meet in an alley. The kind of people that my mother would be frightened of. People that have all the elements of danger, you know, urban fear. Fearsome as these punks may look, they've developed an urban sensibility as a matter of survival. I needed the money really bad. To make money? Yeah, it keeps me out of trouble. I don't have to do anything bad to get money. I just call it out of nothing. I need work. Money and also because you never know sometimes you can get a speaking part out of it. At first you know everyone's put off by the dress and everything because it looks fearsome. But gradually as everyone got to know everyone there was a lot of friendships that were formed and it was a very relaxed atmosphere and it answered that incredible question that's on everyone's mind. What do punks do in the daytime? They work on movies. I'm a filmmaker myself and why my motivation for going out on these jobs is to see what Hollywood is doing, what Hollywood is making, how Hollywood is using the people that I'm interested in using in my films, how they represent them. You know, if anything it gives people a chance to make a living. Without having to completely conform to, you know, someone else's stand that's helped people out I think. Some of those pictures use punks in the sense of look at that geek, look at that strange person and in a sense it's working off a novelty and what they don't realize is that it's a major movement in America. You see it in every city. So if your child wants to get a mohawk, consider this. He may be the next John Travolta.