John Waters Quotes

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• 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 vote for anybody…
• There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s house,…
• If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.
• Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia.…
• As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.
• Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.
• Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?
• I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth…
• Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.
• I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.
• I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.
• And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.
• Technique is nothing more than failed style.
• I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.
• I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only…
• To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.
• To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation.…
• Pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.
• How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder.
• It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she…

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