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In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.
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Do I like how digital films look? Sometimes, but sometimes it looks flat, and ugly.
John Waters
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To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.
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I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.
John Waters -
My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write.
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If I'm seeing a three-hour foreign film, I don't want to watch it in a bed.
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If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't fuck them.
John Waters -
Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
John Waters
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I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.
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In sixth grade, I went to a very good private school, and I did learn there. I learned how to read and write. If I had quit school in sixth grade, I would know as much as I know today and would have made one more movie. By the time I got to college, I was so bored and angry.
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I want to be in a 'Final Destination' movie.
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Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equality in Maryland because I believe we should have the right to it, but I personally don't want to get married. I don't want to imitate the traditions of heterosexual people. I hate weddings: they make me uneasy.
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I read, every day, the 'Wall Street Journal''s editorials because I like to think how my smart enemy thinks.
John Waters -
'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out.
John Waters
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It's still possible to make movies. Not so much on YouTube. On YouTube, you wind up with an advertising career. What movie became infamous and a hit because of YouTube? Maybe there is one. I don't know.
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I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things; I was quite the early director. I could make people laugh enough to get their defences down - and then brainwash them.
John Waters -
My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.
John Waters -
I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.
John Waters -
I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week.
John Waters -
I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.
John Waters
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I don't like reality TV. I don't want to look down on people.
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Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink of Life' was the first one I ever saw. Three pregnant women in a maternity ward and their misery - I love that. That is what I want to show at my funeral.
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Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.
John Waters -
A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they're rich, who really wasn't brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they're rich, and they spend too much time on their hair.
John Waters