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
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.
good-life believe hands
I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.
kids drug dealer
Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?
pride facts redeeming
Pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.
tattoo anchors desire
I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.
faces looks never-forget
To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.
kings directors call-me
Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.
wife waiting hitchhiking
I really didn't have any bad hitchhiking experiences. The only bad experiences were standing by the road for 10 hours. I never thought I'd get a ride with a ministers wife or a coalminer or a Republican elected official. It was all pleasant surprises. The only drag was the waiting.
long directors comedy
No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.
perfectly-good rights racism
"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.
sex men thinking
Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.
sex people looks
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.
kids should-have government
If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, he should have an outfit for that.
sex exercise thinking
Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and the extremes and the conditions and the mental exercises and guilt and shame and happiness that everybody goes through — and what they'll do for sex is never-ending and mind-boggling and very interesting to me. And I don't think a lot of times people choose any of it.