- Mixxxx: Corporations buy old homes to advertise. Their fake "hood murals" paint over our lives. WHEN IT RAINS, 1972
- The director: The hardest thing to do when making a zero-budget film like When it rains... is to keep the passion alive through roadblocks and scheduling and lack of time. And stupid sh-t that happens along the way. So schedules have to be short and actors - everyone - needs to be committed with passion. Money makes a difference. It does.
- The director: "Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves." James Joyce
- The director: The first film in Hollywood history to depict and integrate the Los Angeles urban art scene into a story unrelated to gangs, social underclass or barrio life, but rather as part of the urban landscape. "When it rains..." is a vision of the city of Los Angeles transformational identity.
- The director: The world is owned by a minority keeping the rest fighting to survive.
- The director: The making of WHEN IT RAINS
- Andrew Simms: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Laurie Anderson, Steve Martin, Frank Zappa, Martin Mull, Elvis Costello, Thelonius Monk, Clara Schumann, Miles Davis, George Carlin and several other people have been credited as having created this simile. It's simile.