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
school careers discouraged
The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.
careers laughing mind
The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.
presidential care election
I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.
years careers interviews
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.
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.
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.
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.
careers jerk true-success
True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.
careers ideas interesting
My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.
people understand water
People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge.
building people
The thing I wanted to do was show that it's about the people that come in this building every day.
believes christine grant money movies realistic thinks wants weirdo
We have to make money or they're never going to give it to us. Christine understands that. Let's be realistic here. We don't have a grant anymore. We have a budget. And she really wants and believes and thinks of a way for these weirdo movies to make money.
maybe trouble watch wish
I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.
Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?