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I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK.

~John Waters

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I've been an art collector since the Sixties, and I kept it very separate from my showbusiness career. I've had art shows since the early Nineties, a museum show that travelled to four countries. I've had three or four art books; it's just another way I have to tell stories.

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I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.

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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.

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My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.

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My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a little drama in my family because I was going to riots and everything, but he turned out great and gave us a nice cheque for an AIDS benefit we had for the 'Serial Mom' premiere.

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I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick me right up and take me to my door because they recognised me. It was like a car service. I never really had a bad experience hitchhiking.

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My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write.

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People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting things ever, and now 'Hairspray' is being done at every school in Britain and America.

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I like art. It's another way to rebel.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Director

Born: April 22nd, 1946

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