In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life. John Waters Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble. John Waters Read Quote
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. John Waters Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
