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" I like art. It's another way to rebel. "
John Waters
Art
Another Way
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" It's still possible to make movies. Not so much on YouTube. On YouTube, you wind up with an advertising career. What movie became infamous and a hit because of YouTube? Maybe there is one. I don't know. "
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" I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie. "
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" Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and the publisher of the song - not the singer - and make two separate deals. "
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" 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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" I'd be arrested if I still smoked because I'm the one who would be changing the battery in the airplane in the lavatory to take out the smoke detector. I would've been those people they warn you against. "
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" I always had a work ethic. And I think I very much got that from my father and my mother. "
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" Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink of Life' was the first one I ever saw. Three pregnant women in a maternity ward and their misery - I love that. That is what I want to show at my funeral. "
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" I'd be a bad father. I'm too self-involved. "
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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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" 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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" Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. "
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Life
" I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders. "
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" I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy. "
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" I didn't follow anybody's advice, really. "
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Really
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" 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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" I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life. You should have been, or something's the matter with you. "
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" I want to be in a 'Final Destination' movie. "
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Final
Want
Movie
" I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week. "
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Sometimes
Week
Night
" 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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Kind
People
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" My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write. "
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Day
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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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" Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence. "
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" 'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out. "
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" My main residence is Baltimore. I have an apartment in New York, one in San Francisco, and I live in a rental in Provincetown in the summer. "
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" Everybody think they're an outsider - that word's over! When I was young, being an outsider, I thought it was a bad thing you didn't want to be. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist. "
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