488 Quotes by John Waters

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?

Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if they're on their phone.

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.

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.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I love how they intellectualize rage, and this inner battle that such a tiny percent of people really care about. I find that the most interesting.

If you ever go home with somebody and they don’t have books in their house, don’t sleep with them. I think that’s very important.

Life is nothing if you’re not obsessed.