I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I was in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunk' movie, which was a real bucket list item. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if… — John Waters Copy Share Image
My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him… — John Waters Copy Share Image
To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know… — John Waters Copy Share Image
People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank.… — 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
I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict… — 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
It's still possible to make movies. Not so much on YouTube. On YouTube, you wind up with an advertising career. What movie… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The few movies I can even think of that I watch over and over would be the Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie 'Boom!',… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“Hairspray is the only really devious movie I ever made. The musical based on it is now being performed in practically every… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as… — John Waters Copy Share Image
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… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK. — 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
God knows if you could start a new sex act that's more important than making a good movie. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I was thinking about sort of the similarities between "art movies" and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share… — John Waters Copy Share Image
You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies.… — 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
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
I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person… — 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
I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had… — 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
Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they… — 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
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 photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Things are going great in every part of my life except movies. That's okay. I've got a lot of other parts of… — 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
![“Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they want you to do, to make it for a million dollars. I did that. I don't need a lot, but I need what I used to get, and they don't give you that anymore.” quote by John Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d4/john-waters-751_book_maybe-i-ll-just-write-books-i-d-like-to_139629.jpg)
![“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.” quote by John Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aef/john-waters-751_built_i-built-my-early-career-on-negative-revi_808406.jpg)
