John Waters Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  John Waters

  Sex, People, Looks

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• My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

  John Waters

  Political, Taste, Action

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• I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

  John Waters

  Parent, Let Me, Juvenile

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• I want to be harder to reach, not easier.

  John Waters

  Want, Easier, Harder

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• Contemporary art hates you.

  John Waters

  Art, Hate, Contemporary

  "And Your Family Too". Installation shot, Courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, www.interviewmagazine.com. 2009.

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• People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

  John Waters

  People, Drunk, Credit

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• I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.

  John Waters

  Shoes, Needs, Looks

  "john waters on j-lo, rei kawakubo, bad taste and huge hair". Interview with Jo-Ann Furniss, i-d.vice.com. June 8, 2015.

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• The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.

  John Waters

  Easter, America, Addiction

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• Me gustaba la velocidad. Iba en bellezas negras todo el tiempo. No me pasó nada malo. No me hice drogadicto porque siempre tenía que hacer una película. No estábamos drogados cuando las hacíamos; yo estaba drogado cuando hacía películas. Las hacía todas.

  John Waters

  Drug, Black, Speed

  Fuente: www.timeout.com

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• I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

  John Waters

  Pride, Facts, Redeeming

  "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, 1981.

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• Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

  John Waters

  Opposites, Role Models, Roles

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Technique is nothing more than failed style.

  John Waters

  Style, Technique

  John Waters (2007). “Crackpot: The Obsessions of”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.

  John Waters

  Enemy, Way, Terrorism

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• I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.

  John Waters

  Night, People, Drug

  Fuente: www.timeout.com

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• Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

  John Waters

  Hipster, Abortion, Wish

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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?

  John Waters

  Taken, Scorpios, Police

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.

  John Waters

  Good Life, Believe, Hands

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• Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

  John Waters

  Children, Hate, Authority

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• The way I photograph... in many ways it's directed by chance and all my mistakes, which are often the best stuff. I found that no matter if it's the same tape, the same TV, and the same camera, I can never duplicate an image... your arm jiggles, there's just too much chance. And I never put it on pause, or use any of that fancy equipment.

  John Waters

  Mistake, Arms, Fancy

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• The first real thing was Divine as Jackie Kennedy [in Eat Your Makeup]. His mother found the bloody Jackie Kennedy outfit in the boot of his car and said, 'What is this?" and Divine said, "I am Jackie Kennedy!" His mother just changed the subject; she didn't know what to say.

  John Waters

  Mother, Real, Makeup

  Fuente: www.timeout.com

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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

  Believe, People, Judging

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

  John Waters

  People, Praise

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that in America there is a new movement of underground movies that wants to kick the ass of independent films that they think whine too much.

  John Waters

  Independent, Thinking, America

  Interview with Jonathan Ross, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 1998.

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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

  Hunting, Cinema, Splits

  John Waters, Marvin Heiferman, Lisa Phillips (2004). “John Waters: change of life”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.

  John Waters

  Relax, Trials, Way

  "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, September 1981.

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