How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that. John Waters More Quotes by John Waters More Quotes From John Waters I have no interest in cars. I have a plain, used Buick. I could run over 10 people, and you wouldn't be able to describe my car. John Waters car running people I've bought the same used car from the same man since I was 16 - a Buick every time. They always work, I don't care what color it is. I don't want people to recognize my car in case I want to commit a crime. John Waters color men people I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get. John Waters know-how independent jobs It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them. John Waters airplane writing thinking Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with. John Waters valentine mother heart I'm certainly not going to tell other people what they should do with their own personal lives. I think it's certainly easier for a director to be out. The public is not going to see a movie because the director is gay or straight. It's maybe a little harder for an actor or actress because of, you know, the love roles and stuff. But gay people have been impersonating heteros in the movies for years. So, hopefully, that is becoming less of an issue. I think it would have been really great if a gay person had played a gay person. That's brave! John Waters gay years thinking I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school. John Waters perfectly-normal home school Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy. John Waters glamorous sexy scary Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town. John Waters baltimore towns people I never thought I'd be 52 years old. I don't think that anybody at 16 thinks like that. John Waters years thinking People are going to say, "I was a lesbian back in the 90s" just like people say, "I was a hippie in the 60s". I see them struggling. Rich girls struggling with their heterosexuality. John Waters girl hippie struggle God knows if you could start a new sex act that's more important than making a good movie. John Waters good-movie important sex I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had. John Waters death-penalty crime years I think that's why I've lasted this long because I love everything I make fun of! I make fun of myself first! I mean, I started my career by calling my films "trash" - the local critics used to complain that I beat the critic to the typewriter. John Waters fun mean thinking I do like Christmas. I do understand that there are people who hate it, and there are other religions that resent it. So, I speak to everybody - I try to speak to every kind of minority and majority that cannot escape the steamroller known as Christmas. John Waters hate trying people Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny. John Waters holiday comedy wine The further away I am from water, the less well I do! John Waters wells water When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice. John Waters irony new-york people The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous, they judge other people without knowing the whole story, they want all the attention and they're mean spirited. So I think my films are politically correct in a weird way. John Waters jealous mean thinking I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair. John Waters important justice thinking
