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" I didn't follow anybody's advice, really. "
John Waters
Advice
Really
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" In the beginning, my equipment, I would rent them from teamster-types, really. I don't know where they got the cameras - I think from the TV stations. But I don't know if they asked the TV stations. "
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" Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard? "
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" I wanted to own a junk yard as a child, you know. I used to smash cars and think, 'Oh, my God, there's been an accident.' My mother would take me to junk yards, and I look back on that and I think, 'Wow, that was really loving.' "
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" One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gathering of Friends,' the master invitation list from Rock Hudson's memorial service. It's so great. Everyone's in it, with personal addresses all bound into a book. Someone else once gave me Ike Turner's will. I get great stuff. "
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" A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they're rich, who really wasn't brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they're rich, and they spend too much time on their hair. "
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" My 40th birthday I held in an old-age home. My 50th I had at Pravda before it opened in New York. My 60th I had at Pastis. For my 70th, I thought, 'I don't need to have a celebrity party this year. I'm going to go take my oldest, closest friends to Paris.' "
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" I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick me right up and take me to my door because they recognised me. It was like a car service. I never really had a bad experience hitchhiking. "
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" I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist. "
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" I was in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunk' movie, which was a real bucket list item. "
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List
Item
" Do I like how digital films look? Sometimes, but sometimes it looks flat, and ugly. "
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Ugly
Sometimes
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" New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can't imagine. "
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You
Go
" Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want. "
John Waters
Want
Brand
Christmas
" In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life. "
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You
Start
New Life
" 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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Mother
Child
Black
" If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital. "
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Today
Would
Made
" 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. "
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World
School
Life
" In sixth grade, I went to a very good private school, and I did learn there. I learned how to read and write. If I had quit school in sixth grade, I would know as much as I know today and would have made one more movie. By the time I got to college, I was so bored and angry. "
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" 'Blood Feast' is my favorite of Lewis' films. When we shot 'Serial Mom,' and I showed them the infamous tongue scene, one of the female crew members said, 'I hate when a guy does that.' "
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" When I was young, there were bars called the 'Hungry Hole,' and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages. "
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Now
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" Science fiction is something I never understood. "
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Fiction
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" My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school. "
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" I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea. "
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Think
World
" If you're a juvenile delinquent today, you're a hacker. You live in your parent's house; they haven't seen you for two months. They put food outside your door, and you're shutting down a government of a foreign country from your computer. "
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You
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" Without obsession, life is nothing. "
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Obsession
Nothing
" I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it. "
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Me
Maybe
" I want to be in a 'Final Destination' movie. "
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Final
Want
Movie
" There are schools for weird children now. There wasn't when I was young. "
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Schools
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" My dreams have come true. I mean, everything I wanted to happen as a kid has already happened. "
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Everything
" I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves. "
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