John Waters - biography

“I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.”

“I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don’t get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day.  What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America?  If he hadn’t, somebody else would have and we’d still be here.  Big deal.”

“Without obsession, life is nothing.”

“I’d love to sell out completely.  It’s just that nobody has been willing to buy.”

“I wish something on T.V.  would trouble me.  Then maybe I would watch it.”

“I’m thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial.  That was the only other way I would have gotten it.”

“Isn’t that the most perverse thing you’ve ever heard?”

John Waters directed the following films:
Arizona Bound (1927)
Nevada (1927)
Beau Sabreur (1928)
The Mighty McGurk (1947)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Female Trouble (1974)
Desperate Living (1977)
Hairspray (1988)
Cry-Baby (1990)
Serial Mom (1994)
Pecker (1998)
Cecil B. DeMented (2000)
A Dirty Shame (2004)


John Waters has appeared in the following films:
Eliza Fraser (1976)
End Play (1976)
’Breaker’ Morant (1980)
Attack Force Z (1982)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1988)
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)
Heaven Tonight (1990)
The Real Macaw (1998)
The Sugar Factory (1998)
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Seed of Chucky (2004)
Hairspray (2007)
Mangus! (2011)


John Waters contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Female Trouble (1974)
Desperate Living (1977)
Hairspray (1988)
Serial Mom (1994)
Pecker (1998)
Cecil B. DeMented (2000)
A Dirty Shame (2004)


John Waters was photography director on the following films:
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Female Trouble (1974)
Desperate Living (1977)