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
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 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 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
God knows if you could start a new sex act that's more important than making a good movie. — 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 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
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
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
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
I was in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunk' movie, which was a real bucket list item. — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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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