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John Russell Waters Wiki Biography

• John Waters was born on April 22, 1946, into a Roman Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. 
• He is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, author, stand-up comedian, and art collector who rose to prominence in the early 1970s with his controversial films starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, and Edith Massey, among others. 
• “Pink Flamingos” (1972), “Desperate Living” (1977), “Hairspray” (1988), and “Cry-Baby” (1990) are among Water’s most notable films (1990). 
• In the film industry, the notorious director with the signature pencil mustache has made a fortune. 
• In 1964, he began his professional career. 
• Have you ever wondered how wealthy Jon Waters is right now, in the middle of 2016? 
• Waters’ net worth is estimated to be $38 million, according to authoritative sources. 
• In addition to directing, Waters is a well-known writer and actor who has appeared on both television and the big screen, earning him a large sum of money. 
• John Samuel Waters, Jr. is the son of fire safety equipment manufacturer John Samuel Waters and Patricia Ann. 
• Waters used local actors and friends in all of his early films, which he filmed in Baltimore. 
• Despite the fact that they were trash and scandal films, Waters made a lot of money from them. 
• Ownership of a series of over 8,000 books is his passion. 
• Waters lives in Baltimore most of the time, but he also has homes in New York, San Francisco, and Provincetown. 
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• Morant, the Breaker (1980) Calvert Hall College High School is a public high school in Baltimore, Maryland. 
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John Russell Waters Quick Info

John Russell Waters Trademarks

1. Pencil-thin moustache and camp personality
2. Many of his characters have alliterated names (Dawn Davenport, Francine Fishpaw, Tracy Turnblad, Penny Pingleton, Sylvia Stickles).
3. Films combine outrageous subject matter with a sense of humor
4. Casts Mink Stole in nearly all of his films
5. Frequently casts Patricia Hearst
6. All his movies are set in Baltimore

John Russell Waters Quotes

• [when asked by a reporter why crossdresser Divine ate a piece of dog dirt in his film Pink Flamingos] It was just a little piece of dogshit, and it made her a star.
• [on Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)]: Not since Freaks (1932) has there been such a harrowing pairing of a star (the sensational Juliette Binoche) with a cast of genuinely handicapped actors. Once again, the great Bruno Dumont proves he is the ultimate master of cinematic misery.[2013]
• No film can come near The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)’s snuff-like power to horrify. Just saying that great title out loud should give even real serial killers the creeps.
• (On The Wizard of Oz (1939)) When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness”. That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer.
• Irony ruined everything. I wish my movies could have played at drive-ins, but they never did, because of irony. Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be ‘so bad they were good’. They were not made for the intelligentsia. They were made to be violent for real, or to be sexy for real. But now everybody has irony. Even horror films now are ironic. Everybody’s in on the joke now. Everybody’s hip. Nobody takes anything at face value anymore.
• Pink Flamingos – I don’t think it’s my best movie, but God knows the day I die it will be in the first paragraph of my obituary. It helped make trash more respectable. It lasted longer than I ever would have imagined. I still meet young kids who have just seen it and they react with the same disbelief that people did the first time. I’m proud of it. It was made to make fun of censorship laws at the time. All that has kind of faded. If I hadn’t done the scene where Divine ate dog shit, Johnny Knoxville would have done it in Jackass. The Jackass movies are the closest in spirit to Pink Flamingos than anything else.
• No matter what your sexual preference or gender, no one likes a man who is fussy about his looks. You can spend as much time as you want looking good. But don’t do it in public.
• A movie star is someone you want to either get drunk with or have sex with.
• Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so that I could get an abortion.
• I’m 100% gay and about 20% in gay society. Sometimes I’m more comfortable in punk rock clubs than gay clubs. There are just as many rules I rebel from in the gay world as the straight one. I’m gaily incorrect, but I do vote gay.
• As a child, I always wanted to sit in William Castle’s lap, not Santa’s!
• I would never do hard-core pornography, because it looks too much like open-heart surgery.
• My favorite movie idea is to do a movie where everything’s fake — the trees, the grass, even the sun.
• If someone threw up at one of my screenings, it would be like a standing ovation.
• I’ll never be able to do a sequel to Pink Flamingos (1972) because it would have to end with Divine taking a shit and the dog eating it.
• Who on earth would want to assassinate Danny Thomas? It wouldn’t even make the front page!
• I love Judy Garland, but if a reporter were coming to my home, I wouldn’t have her music playing. A gay man loving Judy would be like a black person watching a minstrel show.
• As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don’t have any. [1983]
• Oh, Squeaky Fromme, where were you when we needed you? [1977: when asked about Anita Bryant]
• I would love to make a movie for very neurotic children. But then perhaps, I’ve already done that. I’ve shown my films at children’s birthday parties. They just love them, like Punch and Judy shows.
• I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.
• To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it’s like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.
• Strive for art in reverse.
• Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.
• “If you can make someone laugh who’s dead set against you, that’s the first step to winning them over to your side.” (2000)
• “My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior — BEFORE the Reformation.” (2000)

John Russell Waters Important Facts

• Was good friends with Russ Meyer, the sexploitation filmmaker. As a fan of his work he would often go see his films in the theatre with Divine.
• Is a well known bibliophile and owns over 8,000 books.
• Favorite movies are The Wizard of Oz (1939), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), Boom! (1968), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), I Stand Alone (1998), and Maps to the Stars (2014).
• In 2008, Waters was planning to make a children’s Christmas film called Fruitcake, starring Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey. Filming was planned for November 2008, but it was shelved in January 2009. In 2010, Waters told the Chicago Tribune that “Independent films that cost $5 million are very hard to get made. I sold the idea, got a development deal, got paid a great salary to write it-and now the company is no longer around, which is the case with many independent film companies these days”.
• Through Richard Owings and his wife Rachel, he is a sixth cousin once removed to Maria Shriver.
• Has released a collection of his scripts called Hairspray, Female Trouble, and Multiple Maniacs (Thunder’s Mouth Press). [September 2005]
• Owns a house in San Francisco. [January 2009]
• His musical, “Hairspray” at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2010 Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Musical (Large).
• Son of John Waters Sr. and Pat Waters.
• Brother-in-law of Sharon Waters.
• Was considered for the role of Det. John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street (1993).
• Attended Calvert Hall College High School in Towson, Maryland.
• Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002.
• One of his closest friends is Baltimore based casting director Pat Moran.
• Maintains a home in north Baltimore, Maryland.
• Was supposed to have a cameo in American Splendor (2003), as the David Letterman guest holding a alligator.
• There is a special section of his immense book collection devoted to Liberace.
• Waters originally wanted a man named “Mr. Ray” to be the narrator of Pink Flamingos (1972). Mr. Ray was famous for his hair-weave radio ads and for his Baltimore accent. Mr. Ray refused, so Waters recorded the voice-over himself, imitating Mr. Ray’s voice as “Mr. J.”
• Member of the ‘Official Competition’ jury at the 48th Cannes International Film Festival in 1995.
• Grew his thin pencil-line mustache in honor of Little Richard.
• Big fan of 1950s director Douglas Sirk and actually got to meet him while in Europe.
• Bears such a strong resemblance to actor Steve Buscemi that as a joke, John Waters sent out cards with a photo of Buscemi made up to look like Waters.
• As a youth, he made as much as $50 a week doing puppet shows for the neighborhood children, and was often hired to entertain at birthday parties. He stated that many of his puppet shows were inspired by the gimmick-heavy films of William Castle.
• Waters has always been very gracious in acknowledging his creative influences, such as Russ Meyer, Otto Preminger, Liberace, William Castle, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Jayne Mansfield, Robert Bresson, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
• Has taught classes at the Patuxent Institution, a correctional facility located halfway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The classes are meant as rehabilitation therapy for convicted killers, in which they learn to write about their violent fantasies rather than act them out.
• Subscribes to more than 80 magazines. Also goes to see just about every movie that comes out and hardly ever rents movies.
• Older brother of Steve Waters.
• He is obsessed with true-crime and used to regularly attend gory trials all over the US, where he often saw the same faces in the public galleries.
• As a youth he would watch adult-only films at the local drive-in, with binoculars.
• His favorite childhood memory was seeing real blood on the seat of a wrecked car when visiting a scrap yard and fantasizing about lethal car crashes.

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