John Waters Movie Quotes

#1. I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really believed then, in 1966, they would not have allowed me to make any of the movies I made. Today, you could make a snuff movie at NYU and get an A.

John Waters

#2. No woman could adjust herself to lesbianism without developing exceptional qualities of courage.

Diana Frederics

#3. Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they want you to do, to make it for a million dollars. I did that. I don't need a lot, but I need what I used to get, and they don't give you that anymore.

John Waters

#4. People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

John Waters

#5. Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

John Waters

#6. My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV screen. Anybody can do that, but it's the order I put the pictures in to try to create a new kind of movie, something that you can put on your wall.

John Waters

#7. I think my favorite movie is 'Joe Versus the Volcano' - or maybe 'Multiple Maniacs' by John Waters.

Justin Kirk

#8. I try to act cool. I've never had a hand on my thigh, under the table. Cathy - my brother's wife - is telling a very funny story about the family's trips to Bridlington, and her elderly Grandmother is doling out peas, which makes the experience even stranger.

Charlotte Stein

#9. The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Aristotle.

#10. Let me love; I will be kind.
Let me seek; I will find.
Let me try; I will attain.
Let me go; I will come again.

Debasish Mridha

#11. A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

#12. So to make movies, if you're first goal is to make money, well you can! Make a tent-pole movie that China wants. But that's not the kind of thing that's really going to get your remembered. You're not going to change anything with that. You might become rich from it!

John Waters

#13. There's enough ugliness in the world without having to feel guilty about the beauty.

Lisa Samson

#14. I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them; I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.

John Waters

#15. You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away?

John Waters

#16. When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.

John Waters

#17. My dream is to be able to make something in Baltimore that's just there. Make a movie or make a show there. I only left because there wasn't any opportunity except being an extra in Barry Levinson or John Waters movies.

Derek Waters

#18. Separate the story - your story - from facts.

Deepak Chopra

#19. God knows if you could start a new sex act that's more important than making a good movie.

John Waters

#20. About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.

Tom Heinsohn

#21. Most animals are built to withstand one bad year.

John Hunter

#22. 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

#23. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

John Waters

#24. I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

John Waters

#25. Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.

Jane Smiley

#26. The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

Thomas Carlyle

#27. Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

John Waters

#28. I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!

William Blake

#29. Sometimes giving up something shows more love than trying to hold onto it.

Ann H. Gabhart

#30. I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

John Waters

#31. There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore.
The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent.

Camelia C.