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"I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19."
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"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."
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"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
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"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
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"I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing."
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"We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!"
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"I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it."
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"I've never made a film using dialogue or speech."
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"I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it."
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"I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell."
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"We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent."
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"But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street."
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"You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to."
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"I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19."
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"John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film."
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"Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family."
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"The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it."
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"Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids."
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"It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips."
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"The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears."
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