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I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.
John Waters
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John Waters
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.
John Waters
With Hairspray, we had a great experience. I always think of the last time I saw Divine: He was in the last booth in the back of the Odeon. Now every time I go in there, I look at that table. It was a wonderful night.Hairspray had been out a week it was a hit. If I had to pick a night that was going to be the last night.
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I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best.
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I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?
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I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.
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I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I'm doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don't have a personal life I feel bad for you.
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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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Technique is nothing more than failed style.
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Coke didn't last long enough it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.
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The further away I am from water, the less well I do!
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A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, Stop trying to make me like you, and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.
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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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Once I had a shrink who said, Your parents are the fuel you run on, because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.
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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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When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.
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Things are going great in every part of my life except movies. That's okay. I've got a lot of other parts of my life. I've made 15 movies. You can see any one of my movies and it says the same thing.
John Waters
I've always tried to keep reinventing myself and to keep appealing to young people and when I go to colleges now and do my spoken-word show it's astounding to me how I get older and the audience gets younger. To me, that's the best compliment. That's better than money, that's better than anything.
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I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.
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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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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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