There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I like film books at the bottom of the barrel and art books at the top. 'The Ghastly One,' by Jimmy McDonough,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don't want to… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's all independent films. There aren't any! If they were looking for me when I was making Polyester, then it'd… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink… — John Waters Copy Share Image
When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
So to make movies, if you're first goal is to make money, well you can! Make a tent-pole movie that China wants.… — John Waters Copy Share Image
You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the… — John Waters Copy Share Image
My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in… — John Waters Copy Share Image
You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn't know what he's doing either. But it comes out… — John Waters Copy Share Image
My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think. — John Waters Copy Share Image
It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up. — John Waters Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An… — John Waters Copy Share Image
When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then… — John Waters Copy Share Image
In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, 'Oh, my last film was… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I think that in America there is a new movement of underground movies that wants to kick the ass of independent films… — John Waters Copy Share Image
New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really… — John Waters Copy Share Image
William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was. — John Waters Copy Share Image
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely. — John Waters Copy Share Image
When I was young, there were bars called the 'Hungry Hole,' and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages. — John Waters Copy Share Image
True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Around '62 in Baltimore, all the girls had those big hairdos. And then suddenly, a few of the really hip ones started doing their… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“John!?” I ask in shock. This woman recognizes me? It can’t be! “How do you know my name?” I wonder out loud. Suddenly she… — John Waters Copy Share Image
'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gathering of Friends,' the master invitation list from Rock Hudson's… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you. — John Waters Copy Share Image
To use bad taste, you have to know the rules of good taste. I've always thanked my mother for that. She taught how to… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'm an old person because I still buy DVDs. I have every one of my albums and 45s - I even have a couple… — John Waters Copy Share Image
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