I'm always fantasising about things,' he added.

'My job is to think of weird things,' Waters said.

His films, including a notorious scene of someone being sexually assaulted by a giant lobster in 1970's 'Multiple Maniacs', have been underpinned by a camp humour in which the director obviously revels. Waters' work reflects decades of social change in the United States, with his often LGBTQ-themed movies provoking shock in the 1960s and '70s, but garlanded with praise in 1980s and '90s. 'I don't care what they want to be.' SOCIAL CHANGE 'To me, I'm just happy everybody's getting to do what they want to do and be themselves,' he said, speaking on the eve of two one-man shows at London's Barbican arts centre on Friday. Waters said he was bemused by the furore. states recently passing legislation restricting trans rights. Other parts of the wider LGBTQ+ community are currently under the spotlight, however, with lawmakers in at least a dozen U.S. Gay men, in particular, have gone from social pariahs in the mid-1960s in the United States, to largely mainstream acceptance today. Waters has gradually attained more mainstream success and respectability - a change partly explained by his shift to more commercial projects, but which also reflects growing acceptance of LGBTQ+ groups and culture. The gay filmmaker has always featured marginalised groups, such as the late drag queen Divine who starred in many of his films, as well as transgender actors and characters. Waters is perhaps best known for the 1972 cult classic 'Pink Flamingos', which follows two groups competing to be the 'filthiest people alive', and his 1988 hit 'Hairspray', featuring singer Debbie Harry and actor Ricki Lake. That's why I now (want) to be an insider - because nobody else wants to.' presidents Barack) Obama and (Donald) Trump would call themselves outsiders, I believe. 'Everybody now wants to be an outsider,' Waters, 76, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from his office in the northeastern U.S. LONDON, June 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - American filmmaker John Waters is well known for pushing boundaries with exuberantly provocative works exploring taboos around themes such as pornography and LGBTQ+ relationships.īut now the cult director, known as the 'Pope of Trash', says he is happy to come in from the cold, as his storytelling finds new audiences. Provocateur filmmaker John Waters says he can't understand controversies over trans rights and his new novel would have got him arrested if it was released in the 1950s

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