Glory Days

   I'm not nostalgic for things. I think my life now is better than it's ever been. I'm more interested in things than I've ever been. I very much look to the future. I don't think the good old days were the old days at all. 
   But certainly I'm fond of what happened in my life. I have pleasant memories of them. And some of the stories are so ludicrous and funny to me, in hindsight especially, that to tell them today I think gives young people hope that they too can do the same thing--that they can make a movie when you don't have any money and the police are chasing you and the censors want to stop you and nobody likes them, and you don't get one good review.  --John Waters, 2007