John Waters – September 2013

September is now officially known as ‘Cable TV Month’ and we couldn’t think of a better person to discuss campy television and trash TV as we chose American film director and screenwriter John Waters to be our quote for this month. Waters began studying film at New York University but ended up leaving and returning to his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Waters (along with his acting group called ‘The Dreamlanders’) would distribute trashy and campy films that often pushed the envelope of public decency and censorship. Waters would often taken an unconventional route to casting for his films as he has given starring roles to known criminals such as Patty Hearst or to adult film actresses such as Traci Lords. Waters went on to direct more mainstream flicks such as ‘Hairspray’ which was turned into a Broadway musical and then redeveloped into a successful mainstream film that made over 200 million dollars at the box office. In addition to ‘Hairspray’, Waters directed mainstream films such as ‘Serial Mom’, ‘Cry-Baby’ and ‘Pecker’. Waters is a known book collector and has a collection of over 8000 books. Furthermore, Waters creates photo-based artwork and comical fine-art collections that have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York and the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2012, Waters hitchhiked from Baltimore, Maryland to San Francisco, California and went on to write a book about his journey entitled ‘Carsick’. Even though Waters has appeared as a host on several television series, Waters is not a fan of television as a medium and has openly discussed his dislike of television sets. In this month’s quote, Waters discusses why he doesn’t like television all that much…

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