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
pride important needs
What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.
book sleep home
If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.
gun world crafts
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!
growing-up children love-you
If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.
sexy scary glamorous
Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.
new-york crazy character
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.
children hate authority
Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.
pain people break
And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.
art men thinking
I think middle America has changed very, very much. I think people are way more open-minded. I think - I think it's because the Internet. I think they're exposed to so much. All the men talked about how much they love their wife, which I don't hear all the time in art communities.
believe bullshit cop
I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.
trying used sells
I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.
relax way trials
Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.
war careers film-critics
I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.
style technique
Technique is nothing more than failed style.