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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.

John Waters

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John Waters
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness”. That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer.
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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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The further away I am from water, the less well I do!
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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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No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.
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I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.
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I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.
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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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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'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.
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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 understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.
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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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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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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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Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.
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So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.
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Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.
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Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.
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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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