488 Quotes by John Waters

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    I read, every day, the 'Wall Street Journal''s editorials because I like to think how my smart enemy thinks.

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    You have to think of a new way to make something new. And the biggest sin - you can never try too hard. You can never look like you're just trying to shock people, 'cause that's simple. But making people laugh is the hard part.

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    To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.

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    They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don't want to be a faux radical film-maker at 70. I did that. I don't need to do it again.

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    I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.

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    My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.

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    I always wanted them to look like Hollywood movies; I just didn't know how to do it.

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    I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn't speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, 'What? That's your son.'

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    Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.

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