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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. "
John Waters
Important
Never
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" Without obsession, life is nothing. "
John Waters
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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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Today
School
Time
" My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble. "
John Waters
School
Education
Father
" 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. "
John Waters
Sitting
Believe
Life
" 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. "
John Waters
World
School
Life
" 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. "
John Waters
You
Want
Radical
" '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. "
John Waters
Deep
People
Money
" I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea. "
John Waters
Art
Think
World
" Around '62 in Baltimore, all the girls had those big hairdos. And then suddenly, a few of the really hip ones started doing their hair straight. And people panicked. And it was called going 'Joe,' meaning Joe College. And people would say, 'I don't know. Should I be 'Joe'? I can't decide.' "
John Waters
Know
People
Meaning
" There are schools for weird children now. There wasn't when I was young. "
John Waters
Now
Schools
Young
" People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting things ever, and now 'Hairspray' is being done at every school in Britain and America. "
John Waters
Early
School
People
" 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.' "
John Waters
New York
Thought
Birthday
" I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad. "
John Waters
Bad
Die
Fun
" When I was young, there were bars called the 'Hungry Hole,' and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages. "
John Waters
Hungry
Now
Gay
" Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard? "
John Waters
Ever
Heard
Most
" I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal. "
John Waters
Columbus
Fall
Day
" My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write. "
John Waters
Begins
Day
Perfect
" Life is a rotten lottery. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it. "
John Waters
God
Good
Life
" I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, 'I don't care if people don't see my movies.' I always want people to see my movies. "
John Waters
Always
Want
See
" 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. "
John Waters
New
Summer
New York
" 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
Me
Marriage
" Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. "
John Waters
Sex
Funny
Life
" '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. "
John Waters
Look
Change
Laugh
" By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead. "
John Waters
You
Step
Generation
" 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
More
" Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left. "
John Waters
Days
Christmas
Only
" What fashion has started from hackers? They have bad posture, and they don't go out. I wish I had a hacker boyfriend - they stay at home up in the bedroom. "
John Waters
Bad
Wish
Home
" I always wanted them to look like Hollywood movies; I just didn't know how to do it. "
John Waters
Always
Know
Look
" I like art. It's another way to rebel. "
John Waters
Art
Another Way
Way
" My dreams have come true. I mean, everything I wanted to happen as a kid has already happened. "
John Waters
Mean
Dreams
Everything