488 Quotes by John Waters

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

I never thought I had more fun when I was young than kids are having today. I think they have just as much fun. It's a different way to have fun.

Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.

An underground hit didn't make any money and it cost a dollar to get in.

I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

I built a career on negative reviews. I didn't get a good review ever until Fran Lebowitz gave me a good review in Interview. That was the first good review I got in 10 years.