John Waters Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

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• I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.

  John Waters

  Book, Touching, Cards

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• I think it's important to visit people in prison. And if you know anyone in prison, I would encourage you very much to visit them. They're a good audience! I always get good letters from prisoners. I don't usually answer them because I have a lot going on in my life, but I get some really good ones, I get some really good letters from prison.

  John Waters

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Outrageously earnest a John Waters trademark". Interview with Michael Workman, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

  John Waters

  Book, Reading, Impossible

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• 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.

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• 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

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• I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

  John Waters

  Home, School, Perfectly Normal

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• Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway?

  John Waters

  Fighting, Gay, Army

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• My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.

  John Waters

  Catholic, Hobbies, Behavior

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Waters

  Tattoo, Anchors, Desire

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I built a career on negative reviews. I didn't get a good review ever until Fran Lebowitz gave me a good review in Interview. That was the first good review I got in 10 years.

  John Waters

  Years, Careers, Negative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.

  John Waters

  Successful, Two, Years

  Interview with Jonathan Ross, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 1998.

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• Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

  John Waters

  Kids, Drug, Dealer

  "The People's Pervert" by Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• 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.

  John Waters

  Jobs, Independent, Know How

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• Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It's not even bad to be a communist anymore!

  John Waters

  Gun, Zips, World

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• With Hairspray, we had a great experience. I always think of the last time I saw Divine: He was in the last booth in the back of the Odeon. Now every time I go in there, I look at that table. It was a wonderful night.Hairspray had been out a week; it was a hit. If I had to pick a night that was going to be the last night.

  John Waters

  Night, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading.

  John Waters

  Reading, People, House

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• My favorite characters are people who think they're normal but they're not. I live in Baltimore, and it's full of people like that. I've also lived in New York, which is full of people who think they're crazy, but they're completely normal.

  John Waters

  New York, Crazy, Character

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• I've signed dicks, asses, parole cards, a colostomy bag while it was still pumping. A couple of years ago, I signed a bloody Tampax. That's one you don't forget. I'm not asking for someone to top that!

  John Waters

  Couple, Years, Bags

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• It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

  John Waters

  Editing, Years, Leather Jackets

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

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• I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.

  John Waters

  Character, Thinking, Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.

  John Waters

  Home, Wish, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

  John Waters

  War, Squares, Film Critics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An underground hit didn't make any money and it cost a dollar to get in.

  John Waters

  Dollars, Cost

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was thinking about sort of the similarities between "art movies" and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share certain qualities, whether they're hyper-stylized or overly emotive or just very visual.

  John Waters

  Art, Thinking, Quality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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