John Waters Quotes
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The few movies I can even think of that I watch over and over would be the Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie 'Boom!', 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!', and 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.' I wouldn't call any of them mainstream.
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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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Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.
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At my age, you can go either fat or gaunt. I've gone gaunt.
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I read, every day, the 'Wall Street Journal''s editorials because I like to think how my smart enemy thinks.
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I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.
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Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.
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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.
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'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.
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In the beginning, my equipment, I would rent them from teamster-types, really. I don't know where they got the cameras - I think from the TV stations. But I don't know if they asked the TV stations.
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Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
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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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My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write.
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I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear - then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one.
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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.
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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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My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a little drama in my family because I was going to riots and everything, but he turned out great and gave us a nice cheque for an AIDS benefit we had for the 'Serial Mom' premiere.
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I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
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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.
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I want to be in a 'Final Destination' movie.
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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.
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There are schools for weird children now. There wasn't when I was young.
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My 40th birthday I held in an old-age home. My 50th I had at Pravda before it opened in New York. My 60th I had at Pastis. For my 70th, I thought, 'I don't need to have a celebrity party this year. I'm going to go take my oldest, closest friends to Paris.'
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I've always been close to my family. I've got a lot of nieces and nephews, but I'm a good uncle.