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
home wish acting
Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.
real surprise enough
It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after.
girl art thinking
I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day they will be considered equal. They aren't yet. They will be.
kids cells phones
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.
character thinking vision
I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.
taken scorpios police
You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away?
phones long people
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.
opposites date-movie hard
I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.
thinking careers people
I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.
believe judging people
People that pick up hitchhikers I believe are basically good people that believe in other people and understand problems and don't judge people. That's always the kind of person I'm looking for.
believe people goodness
It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.
interesting people battle
I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I love how they intellectualize rage, and this inner battle that such a tiny percent of people really care about. I find that the most interesting.
gay thinking feminist
I think the best article was the article about radical feminists being against transgender women. I found that the most fascinating article and I absolutely loved it. I love battles within the gay community or feminist community. I love radical theorists.
racist-jokes way boundaries
To me, racist jokes are not funny. I am politically correct, in a weird way. I like to push the boundaries that are politically correct.