“People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting...” — John Waters Quote

“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.”

“I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.”

“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.”

“I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.”

“What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S.”

“In Germany, apprentices undergo a final examination in the vocational school and an oral examination and practical test in the workplace. The same should happen in Britain.”