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" The few movies I can even think of that I watch over and over would be the Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie 'Boom!', 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!', and 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.' I wouldn't call any of them mainstream. "

John Waters

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" I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it. "

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" The good guys in my movies mind their own business, and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous; they judge other people without knowing the whole story. They want all the attention, and they're mean spirited. "

" I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job. "

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

" I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob. "

" I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear - then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one. "

" My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a little drama in my family because I was going to riots and everything, but he turned out great and gave us a nice cheque for an AIDS benefit we had for the 'Serial Mom' premiere. "

" When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it. "

" I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more. "

John Waters

I Can

Any

" Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equality in Maryland because I believe we should have the right to it, but I personally don't want to get married. I don't want to imitate the traditions of heterosexual people. I hate weddings: they make me uneasy. "

John Waters

People

Marriage

" 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. "

" I always had a work ethic. And I think I very much got that from my father and my mother. "

" I was in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunk' movie, which was a real bucket list item. "

" I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated that then. "

" Do I like how digital films look? Sometimes, but sometimes it looks flat, and ugly. "

" I do take a one-week vacation every year, and I go to London in the fall. "

John Waters

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" If I'm seeing a three-hour foreign film, I don't want to watch it in a bed. "

" 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. "

" I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK. "

" Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. "

" At my age, you can go either fat or gaunt. I've gone gaunt. "

" If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital. "

" Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard? "

" I remember when I first went to the Baltimore Museum of Art and I bought this little Moreau print in the gift shop. I took it home, and I was, like, 12 years old or something. "

" Who have I been starstruck by in real life? One of the weirdest ones was, when we were making 'Cry-Baby,' David Nelson from 'The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet.' I couldn't believe he was sitting in my living room. Certainly Patricia Hearst. Tab Hunter. A lot of the stars I've worked with, when I first got them. "

" The rudest possible gift is a gift card. It means you think the person is stupid and has no interests. The only good gift card is Bitcoin. You practically have to be a hacker to know about it. "

" I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves. "