 I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19. |
| 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. |
| The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears. |
| 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. |
| We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972. |
| Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to. |
| John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film. |
