"You can't have bad taste without good taste."

Tuesday evening as part of this year's SIFF John Waters did a Q&A before a showing of his 2000 flic "Cecil B. Demented"

What follows are a few of the more memorable quotes I jotted down. Try to imagine them said with that great voice he has, sort of an East Coast gay drawl....


[Referencing the locally made documentary "ZOO" about the Enumclaw zoophile killed by a ruptured anus from being penetrated by a horse.]
"That movie taught me a whole new set of words. 'Are you ZOO?' 'Yeah I'm Zoo.' That was a great movie!"

"You can't have bad taste without good taste. I thank my stepmother for teaching me which fork to use for the salad."

"I don't watch TV. I watch it for porn. It's good for watching war. And porn."

"People send me free porn all the time. I write reviews, thank-you notes. Thank you for sending me Schindler's Fist."

"Best headline the New York Post ever ran: IKE BEATS TINA TO DEATH"

[When asked why some innocent characters had to get gunned down in "Cecil B. Demented".]
"They got in the way of the shot! There's some reasons people need to die!"

"The first 10 minutes of your script gets the money people, the last 10 minutes get the audience to love your movie."

"I don't trust anyone who hasn't been arrested at least once."


And the final thing he added just before leaving the stage: "If anybody in the audience liked even one of my movies, thank you very much."

Class act, and a fucking funny interviewee.