488 Quotes by John Waters

Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own.

I make independent movies. I don’t know how to do anything else. I don’t know any other job that I could really get.

When you’re feeling despondent just put on more country music. There are thousands of slit-your-wrist hillbilly songs that will make you laugh at your self-indulgence and ultimately cheer you up.

When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I’m for insiders.

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don’t have any.

I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I’ve voted more than once, illegally. But you can’t anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.

I was thinking about sort of the similarities between “art movies” and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share certain qualities, whether they’re hyper-stylized or overly emotive or just very visual.

And yep, here’s yet one more heterosexual man who loves his wife. I’m telling you, it’s a trend! Women I know who are always complaining they can never meet a good straight man – maybe you’re living in the wrong part of the country. Maybe you need to hitchhike. Route 70 West could be the path to a great marriage. Go ahead, stick out your thumb for romance.

I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn’t write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.