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 used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me. — 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
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 think that's why I've lasted this long because I love everything I make fun of! I make fun of myself first!… — 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 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
I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I've bought the same used car from the same man since I was 16 - a Buick every time. They always work,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I have no interest in cars. I have a plain, used Buick. I could run over 10 people, and you wouldn't be… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to… — 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)
