John Waters Quotes About Fun

Quotes about: Fun

• I respect everything I make fun of.

  John Waters

  Fun

• It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freeways. They're so much fun they should charge admission. Never fret about zigzagging back and forth through six lanes of traffic at high speeds; it erases jet lag in a split second. You're now heading toward Hollywood, like any normal tourist. Breathe in that smog and feel lucky that only in L.A. will you glimpse a green sun or a brown moon. Forget the propaganda you've heard about clean air; demand oxygen you can see in all its glorious discoloration.

  John Waters

  Fun, Moon, Air

  John Waters (1986). “Crackpot, the Obsessions of John Waters”, Vintage

• 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.

  John Waters

  Fun, Real, Hippie

  "John Waters Takes It All". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2014.

• I think that's why I've lasted this long because I love everything I make fun of! I make fun of myself first! I mean, I started my career by calling my films "trash" - the local critics used to complain that I beat the critic to the typewriter.

  John Waters

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

• Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.

  John Waters

  Running, Fun, Long

  Source: www.timeout.com

• I never thought I had more fun when I was young than kids are having today. I think they have just as much fun. It's a different way to have fun.

  John Waters

  Fun, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.

  John Waters

  Fun, Government, Yale

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  John Waters

  Fun, People, Scary

  "He Really Can't Help Himself : Shockingly Eccentric Writer-Director John Waters Offers Yet Another Look At The Gruesome With His New Film, 'Serial Mom.' It Stacks Up Nicely Against His Cult Faves 'Pink Flamingos' And 'Mondo Trasho'". Interview with James Grant, articles.latimes.com. April 10, 1994.

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