488 Quotes by John Waters

I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.

I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.

Georgia is doing a great job of opening up its economy and its government and its future to integrating with Europe and more intense democratic standards. We want to see Armenia tied as closely as it can be to Georgia for purposes of trade, for purposes of transport, and others.

Pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

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.

There is still such a thing as subversive. Subversive makes hip people nervous. It's something new that scares you in a good way. I mean, subversive to me is a compliment. Subversive is something that influences people to do something against society that they haven't thought of before.

People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he's just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that's what I mean.