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John Waters
Director
Born:
Apr 22
,
1946
First
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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Science fiction is something I never understood.
John Waters
Science
Something
Never
Science Fiction
Understood
Fiction
New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can't imagine.
John Waters
Time
You
Every
Every Time
Out
Horrible
Glad
Hospital
Cleaned
Had
New
Robbed
Terrible
Got
Go
Baltimore
Up
Than
York
New York
Mugged
Ever
Imagine
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
Live
Summer
Francisco
Main
New
Baltimore
York
New York
San
San Francisco
Apartment
Residence
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.
John Waters
School
Films
Never
Know
Look
Terrible
Learned
Doing
Film
Film School
Early
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.
John Waters
You
People
Changing
Those
Airplane
Battery
Out
Would
Would-Be
Detector
Take
Smoke
Smoked
Because
Still
Arrested
Been
Against
Warn
Who
I don't like reality TV. I don't want to look down on people.
John Waters
Reality
People
Down
TV
Like
Look
Want
Reality TV
I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?
John Waters
Me
You
Conservative
Thought
Made
Parents
Think
Else
Extremes
Though
City
Could
Feel
Mortified
Know
Safe
Because
Doing
Were
Encouraged
Baltimore
Up
Very
Grew
Which
Certainly
Even
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.
John Waters
Life
You
Trust
Matter
Once
Something
Least
Been
Jail
Anyone
Should
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.
John Waters
Hair
Wear
Through
Beatnik
Had
Period
Looks
Because
How
Baltimore
Up
Front
Different
Wanted
Grew
Suburban
Then
Used
Hard
Preppy
In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.
John Waters
Life
You
New Life
Enough
City
Could
Had
Had Enough
New
Another
Move
Start
Save
I was in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunk' movie, which was a real bucket list item.
John Waters
Bucket
Real
Item
List
Movie
Which
I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.
John Waters
Happiness
People
Pain
Rules
Kind
Seek
Like
Any
Break
Themselves
Who
Bringing
Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'
John Waters
Mom
Remember
Trouble
Baby
Liberal
Worst
Except
Demented
Cry
Cecil
Any
Them
Serial
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.
John Waters
Beginning
Think
Stations
TV
Would
Know
Got
Rent
Equipment
Cameras
Where
In The Beginning
Them
Asked
Really
The first record I got, I think I stole. I was with my mother; she turned her back, and I slipped it in my coat. And I think it was 'Cry Baby' by The Bonnie Sisters. That or 'Lucille' by Little Richard.
John Waters
Mother
First
Think
Baby
Back
Record
Cry
She
Got
Sisters
Stole
Little
Richard
Turned
Little Richard
Coat
Lucille
Her
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.
John Waters
Music
You
Song
Complicated
Incredibly
Out
Find
Records
Writer
Putting
Singer
Make
Deals
Separate
Publisher
Right
Buying
Two
Compilation
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.
John Waters
You
Word
Thought
Young
Think
Everybody
Bad
Bad Thing
Outsider
Over
Being
Want
Thing
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
Me
Important
Would
Write
Never
Know
Most
Most Important Thing
Make
How
Important Thing
The Most Important
Movie
Script
Thing
I always wanted them to look like Hollywood movies; I just didn't know how to do it.
John Waters
Like
Know
Look
Always
How
Just
Wanted
Movies
Them
Hollywood
Hollywood Movies
Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.
John Waters
Funny
Change
Long
Nothing
Everything
Out
Raw
Come
Underground
Against
Movies
Scripts
Nowhere
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