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
directors film my-favorite
I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.
book price-tag want
Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.
couple years asking
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!
mean bars prison
I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?
agents censorship whole-life
Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.
sleep dating long
I came from a generation where women were almost deified, and like Groucho Marx's line, "I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member", I thought, "I wouldn't want to sleep with a woman who would sleep with me!" It took me a long time to work my way through that.
mean independent good-times
I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.
people care want
I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, "I don't care if people don't see my movies." I always want people to see my movies.
heart looks too-much
I would never do hard-core pornography, because it looks too much like open-heart surgery.
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.
everyday-problems feelings way
I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone's everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.
fun people scary
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.
long directors comedy
No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.
faces looks never-forget
To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.