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No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.
John Waters
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John Waters
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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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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My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.
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I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.
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Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.
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Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I'm dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it's great, I'm not dead, so I get to see it.
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I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.
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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny.
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There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.
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You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away?
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I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.
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People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.
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I go to colleges all the time in America, and everyone's gay, and I think how can this be? And it's only in rich schools. In poor schools, nobody's gay.
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I do like Christmas. I do understand that there are people who hate it, and there are other religions that resent it. So, I speak to everybody - I try to speak to every kind of minority and majority that cannot escape the steamroller known as Christmas.
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You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn't know what he's doing either. But it comes out kind of good.
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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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My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.
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Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with.
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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.
John Waters
Contemporary art hates you.
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I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.
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