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
years parent idiot
Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.
hipster life-is obsessed
Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.
kids drug dealer
Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?
reading book impossible
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.
people drunk credit
People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.
book fall writing
I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?
art hate contemporary
Contemporary art hates you.
mom mother son
At the premiere of Hairspray on Broadway, Harvey Fierstein's mom said to my mom, "Didn't we raise great sons?" and my mother just started sobbing, because I'm sure they'd both been through other nights when people didn't say that.
good-life believe hands
I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.
shoes looks faces
I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.
opposites role-models roles
Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?
running fun long
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.
ovation taste entertainment
To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.
song rap museums
I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.