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John Waters
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John Waters
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.
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I think the extremes are something that's really interesting to see coalesce in movies.
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My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.
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People vomitied at my movies not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.
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Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.
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My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.
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It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after.
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Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.
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Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.
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I loved Cookie [Mueller]. She was a much better writer than actress. She shouldn't have stuck with me in the beginning she should have immediately become a writer. She would have had more of a chance.
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If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do try to be shocking and dirty.
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I think it's all independent films. There aren't any! If they were looking for me when I was making Polyester, then it'd be perfect, but they're not. I'm not looking for that. TV is much bigger and better now far more people see it.
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Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he's just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that's what I mean.
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How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder.
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I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.
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People that pick up hitchhikers I believe are basically good people that believe in other people and understand problems and don't judge people. That's always the kind of person I'm looking for.
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Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.
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Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.
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Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.
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It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.
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