John Waters Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Waters
John Waters Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.
I like the word 'underground' ... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.
You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn't know what he's doing either. But it comes out kind of good.
To me, racist jokes are not funny. I am politically correct, in a weird way. I like to push the boundaries that are politically correct.
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.
Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don't say anything and you don't know they know who you are.
I look out through the eyeholes and feel exactly the way Michael Jackson's son Blanket must have felt
I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.
Just because something 'happens', because it is 'true', because the 'facts' are correct, does not ensure that it is the truth.
I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.
I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.
Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if they're on their phone.
It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can have.
I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.
Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.
I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.
I think that nobody gets mad at me anymore, no matter what I say, because I don't think I'm mean. I am interested in what's next.
If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.
We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.
Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.
Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.
The only insult I've ever received in my adult life was when someone asked me, "Do you have a hobby?" A HOBBY?! DO I LOOK LIKE A FUCKING DABBLER?!
The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.
Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.
Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.
If I died tomorrow I've accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.
I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.
Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own.
When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.
I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.
I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.
Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway?
Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.
I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.
I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.
But my abortion politics are simple. If you can't love your child, don't have it, because it will grow up and kill me.
People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.
If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, he should have an outfit for that.
If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.
I'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.
People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.
I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.
I believe that if a seven-year old kid has heard of Naked Lunch and is daring enough to want to read it, he's old enough to read it.