I think middle America has changed very, very much. I think people are way more open-minded. I think - I think it's… — 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
People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist. — John Waters Copy Share Image
If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don't… — 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
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
I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like. — John Waters Copy Share Image
The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'm for gay marriage. I don't want to do it, but I certainly think people should be allowed to, and I wouldn't… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I actually think that my films are intellectual. I think almost everything I do is intellectual, but I would never say that,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'm not a separatist, I'm friends with some people who voted for Trump, not many. Nobody has the nerve to tell me,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting things ever, and now 'Hairspray' is being done at every… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think… — John Waters Copy Share Image
You have to think of a new way to completely surprise people who think they're hip. I always said you could make… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New… — 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
