I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies.… — 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
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 always wanted them to look like Hollywood movies; I just didn't know how to do it. — 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
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
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
Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The good guys in my movies mind their own business, and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous;… — 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
