Female Trouble

““I’ve got lots of trouble... Female Trouble.” So I took my Mother to see John Waters– and my aunt, to see John Waters’s film. I think that was another turning point. I think I was 19, in Philadelphia, and I took my Mother and my aunt to see this. And at the end of it, you know, my aunt a little old Black lady, slapped me in the face. And I knew at that moment that I wanted to be a director, because that’s– I wanted to make people feel the way she felt.”

“I think I'm going to start with John Waters classic Female Trouble. This is the best thing in the world. John Waters forever.”

“Female Trouble because I think that this entire what this represents and who John Waters is and who Divine was and everything about this movie is one of the only weapons against fascism we have.”

“Okay yes, I'm taking this because I don't know it, I've never seen it and I really want to see it. Female Trouble by John Waters, I want to see this, I never saw this one, I never saw.”

“What about Female Trouble? Female Trouble, top five. Really truly top five. It's like Jerri Blank in the seventies. It's so special and moves so well. Glamour has never been more grotesque and Edith Massey is the funniest person ever to have ever lived. One of the most subversive things in Female Trouble is she with her character wants her nephew to be gay. She's like, 'The world of the heterosexual, it's a sick and boring world.'”

“John Waters, Female Trouble. I love so many John Waters films, but this is far and above his best. It's still weirdly timely. It is a saga about punk rock and true crime and evil celebrity, and it has the funniest opening 10 minutes of any film I have ever seen. Oh my God, John Waters, forever in our hearts, and you're still alive.”

“Amazing, you picked Female Trouble. Yeah, I did. Again, a classic in a way.”