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The further away I am from water, the less well I do!
John Waters
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John Waters
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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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'm a film director. Gay is an adjective that I certainly am, but I don't know that it's my first one. I think if you're just a gay filmmaker, you get pigeonholed just like if you say I'm a black filmmaker, I'm a Spanish filmmaker, I'm a whatever.
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Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week.
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Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.
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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'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 other way I would have gotten it.
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I make a great part of my living by traveling and speaking. To me, it's like being a politician, you meet your audience, you constantly see the people and they're getting younger for me which is really, really encouraging. I get older and my audience gets younger. It couldn't be better.
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The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.
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Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.
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And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.
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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 anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.
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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.
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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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Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great it's not a trendy town.
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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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Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?
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I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.
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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 liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.
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