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
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 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
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
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
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 have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK. — 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 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
People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway. — 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
I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie. — 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
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
