John Waters Quotes

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  • I'm the smartest at 8 A.M. I wake up at 6, drink three cups of Awake Tazo Tea and read five newspapers. I have to think up something every day, Monday to Friday.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

    "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, September 1981.
  • Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia. They were made to be violent for real, or to be sexy for real. But now everybody has irony. Even horror films now are ironic. Everybody's in on the joke now. Everybody's hip. Nobody takes anything at face value anymore.

    Sexy   Real   Ironic  
  • I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 16, 2000.
  • What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

    Pride   Important   Needs  
  • The first real thing was Divine as Jackie Kennedy [in Eat Your Makeup]. His mother found the bloody Jackie Kennedy outfit in the boot of his car and said, 'What is this?" and Divine said, "I am Jackie Kennedy!" His mother just changed the subject; she didn't know what to say.

    Mother   Real   Makeup  
    Source: www.timeout.com
  • I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.

    Moving   Cities   Style  
    "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, 1981.
  • Without obsession, life is nothing.

  • My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.

    Life   Book   Fighting  
  • Things are going great in every part of my life except movies. That's okay. I've got a lot of other parts of my life. I've made 15 movies. You can see any one of my movies and it says the same thing.

    Made   Okay  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.

    Book   Touching   Cards  
  • No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

    Long   Directors   Comedy  
  • People that pick up hitchhikers I believe are basically good people that believe in other people and understand problems and don't judge people. That's always the kind of person I'm looking for.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

    Hipster   Abortion   Wish  
  • I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

    John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.161, Macmillan
  • I think the best article was the article about radical feminists being against transgender women. I found that the most fascinating article and I absolutely loved it. I love battles within the gay community or feminist community. I love radical theorists.

    Gay   Thinking   Feminist  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty. They aren't really. It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. Those early movies, we had drugs, which you weren't supposed to show. You weren't supposed to shoot up. We would make fun of hippies. I think that we were punk before there was punk.

    Fun   Real   Hippie  
    "John Waters Takes It All". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2014.
  • I loved Cookie [Mueller]. She was a much better writer than actress. She shouldn't have stuck with me in the beginning; she should have immediately become a writer. She would have had more of a chance.

    Source: www.timeout.com
  • I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don't send a thank-you note, repay them with sexual activity. If the book is rare or by your favorite author or one you didn't know about, reward them with the most perverted sex act you can think of. Otherwise, you can just make out.

    Sex   Book   Thinking  
    "John Waters Offers Season’s Greeting With a Wink". Interview with Guy Trebay, www.nytimes.com. December 6, 2013.
  • With Hairspray, we had a great experience. I always think of the last time I saw Divine: He was in the last booth in the back of the Odeon. Now every time I go in there, I look at that table. It was a wonderful night.Hairspray had been out a week; it was a hit. If I had to pick a night that was going to be the last night.

    Night   Thinking   Looks  
    Source: www.timeout.com
  • I love hipsters! Yes, I think they're hilarious. The really cute ones try to look ugly just to prove "I can't be ugly." Normcore was kind of funny too.

    Cute   Hipster   Thinking  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

  • William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

  • Well cult is a word you would never say in Hollywood. In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, "Oh, my last film was a cult film." I'd say, "Oh great, well I hope this one isn't!"

    Trying   Lasts   Next  
  • A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

    Moving   Kids   Cities  
    Source: www.timeout.com
  • It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

    "An Evening With John Waters On Hitchhiking And Middle America". "Here and Now" with Robin Young, kuow.org. June 24, 2014.
  • Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

    Source: www.timeout.com
  • I'm not a separatist, I'm friends with some people who voted for Trump, not many. Nobody has the nerve to tell me, but a few have.

    People  
    "John Waters, in town and in rare form, as usual". Interview with Michael Workman, www.chicagotribune.com. April 28, 2017.
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