John Waters Film Quotes

#1. I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

Mink Stole

#2. I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the 'New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.

Rachel Sklar

#3. I'm a film director. Gay is an adjective that I certainly am, but I don't know that it's my first one. I think if you're just a gay filmmaker, you get pigeonholed just like if you say I'm a black filmmaker, I'm a Spanish filmmaker, I'm a whatever.

John Waters

#4. There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

Otis Blackwell

#5. You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn't know what he's doing either. But it comes out kind of good.

John Waters

#6. Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's gonna take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

George W. Bush

#7. It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

John Waters

#8. It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city 'livable' for you.

Stella Young

#9. I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

John Waters

#10. I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.

John Waters

#11. There it is," says Christian, looking at me with something like admiration.
"There what is?"
"The smile. You always smile when you ski

Cynthia Hand

#12. Well cult is a word you would never say in Hollywood. In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, "Oh, my last film was a cult film." I'd say, "Oh great, well I hope this one isn't!"

John Waters

#13. We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe ... yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it weighs on us. Whence comes it? Where is it? No one knows ... or at least no one tells. This association is secret even to us the veterans of the Secret Societies.

Giuseppe Mazzini

#14. People are made in such a way that if something inexplicable happens to them, they write it off to an overheated imagination.

Max Frei

#15. A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

#16. Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

Karl Blossfeldt

#17. I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.

Billy Bob Thornton

#18. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

John Waters

#19. Someday, we'll all be a thousand years older than we are now and I'm not sure we'll be any wiser when it comes to the heart and when it comes to love ...

Jason Myers

#20. The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An art film means it got a lot of good reviews and nobody went. There is no such thing as a counter culture now. What used to be considered that is commercial now.

John Waters

#21. I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.

John Waters

#22. Oh, how he missed his sister. Out of everyone, the legions of the dead, the numberless infinities of souls who had gone before, it was the loss of Ursula that had left him with the sorest heart.

Kate Atkinson

#23. I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

Rabih Alameddine

#24. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

Oscar Wilde

#25. the gorgeous blonde with long legs and a body like a Playboy pin-up" Carla Ferrari, P.I.

Cynthia Westland