John Waters Quotes - Page 10

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• I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

  John Waters

  Revenge, School, Thinking

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• I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.

  John Waters

  Trying, Used, Jokes

  "John Waters discusses 50 years of John Waters movies, and why he refuses to go backward". Interview with Matt Patches, thedissolve.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography.

  John Waters

  Photography, Art, Jobs

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• I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

  John Waters

  Mean, Independent, Good Times

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• I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

  John Waters

  Mean, Bars, Prison

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.137, Macmillan

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• I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Parent, Proud

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• 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.

  John Waters

  Sex, Book, Thinking

  "John Waters Offers Season’s Greeting With a Wink". Interview with Guy Trebay, www.nytimes.com. December 6, 2013.

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• I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

  John Waters

  Directors, Film, My Favorite

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• It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can have.

  John Waters

  Kids, Feelings, Delight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and never witty. It's kind of really old hat because just being shocking isn't enough. It has to change how you think about something. It has to startle you. It has to make you look at something and reconsider whether you're right. That's the whole point.

  John Waters

  Witty, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.thehippocollective.com

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• 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.

  John Waters

  Phones, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Roman Candles was shown in a church, and so was Eat Your Makeup, so was Mondo Trasho, and so was Multiple Maniacs (1970). It's hard to imagine that churches showed these movies but a few in the '60s, like St. Mark's Church, or on the Bowery, they always were left-wing.

  John Waters

  Makeup, Wings, Church

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  John Waters

  Home, Guests, Pot

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• 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!"

  John Waters

  Horse, Like Love, Battle

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

  John Waters

  Song, School, Men

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they want you to do, to make it for a million dollars. I did that. I don't need a lot, but I need what I used to get, and they don't give you that anymore.

  John Waters

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I think it's all independent films. There aren't any! If they were looking for me when I was making Polyester, then it'd be perfect, but they're not. I'm not looking for that. TV is much bigger and better now; far more people see it.

  John Waters

  Independent, Thinking, People

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• 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.

  John Waters

  Years, Baltimore, Couches

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die." I did it.

  John Waters

  Book, Tragic, Print

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• 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.

  John Waters

  Kids, Phones, Cells

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

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• Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.

  John Waters

  Hate, Humor, People

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• I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.

  John Waters

  Powerful, Hate, Ocean

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.34, Macmillan

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• 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.

  John Waters

  Reading, Pops, Tricks

  John Waters (2007). “Crackpot: The Obsessions of”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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