488 Quotes by John Waters

Wouldn’t you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

I’d love to sell out completely. It’s just that nobody has been willing to buy.

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

I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I’m afraid they won’t hold up.

You don’t need fashion designers when you are young. Have faith in your own bad taste. Buy the cheapest thing in your local thrift shop – the clothes that are freshly out of style with even the hippest people a few years older than you. Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents – that is the key to fashion leadership.

All ideology can be embraced if the leader dresses well.

Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It’s not even bad to be a communist anymore!

If I died tomorrow I’ve accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.

I never got along in school really – I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.