John Waters
John Waters
John Samuel Waters, Jr.is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. Waters's 1970s and early '80s films feature his regular troupe of actors known as the Dreamlanders—among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey. Starting with Desperate Living, Waters began casting real-life convicted criminalsand controversial people...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 April 1946
thinking awful wonder
How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder.
moving cities style
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.
hunting splits cinema
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.
pride facts redeeming
Pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.
beautiful girl prayer
When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness”. That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer.
mean people scare
There is still such a thing as subversive. Subversive makes hip people nervous. It's something new that scares you in a good way. I mean, subversive to me is a compliment. Subversive is something that influences people to do something against society that they haven't thought of before.
sexy stupid mean
Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he's just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that's what I mean.
night people drug
I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.
years parent idiot
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.
hipster life-is obsessed
Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.
kids drug dealer
Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?
reading book impossible
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.
people drunk credit
People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.
book fall writing
I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?