I went to a school very near to this house and it looked kind of like… I called it Dracula House. Is it true that you bought the house that used to scare you when you were a kid? You should see their faces … they do the job quickly and get out. You know, it’s sometimes good for the phone man or somebody else. It was made for one of my movies and it’s an exact replica. It’s mostly antiques but I also have contemporary art, and then I have an electric chair in my hall! I’m so used to it, I put the mail and my coat on it. Every room has a huge amount of books in it, and a lot of rare rugs. It’s got four floors, it’s very homey, it’s mostly books.
It’s a sort of European looking house, from the outside. Well, I really have two homes, because I live in New York, but my house in Baltimore is my main one. So what’s our home like, the one where you actually live? I mostly have antiques and… my favourite kind of thing would be one of the most hideous Jeff Koons pieces next to the likes of a Chippendale couch… I don’t dislike it at all, but I don’t personally have it. It’s the thing, the kind of look that every young, smart kid wants to have in their apartments today. It’s something huge in America right now: the most collectable thing. I don’t know a huge amount about it but in America it’s all the rage: people fall to their knees in front of it and pray to it, in some stores certainly. He still shows me drawings and that kind of stuff, we’d even go shopping during Serial Mom … but he certainly designs all the things that come up. Yes, in the old days, in the early movies, we went shopping together. So you choose the colours and everything … He knows what I like, he really knows it well. We talk about it, we have meetings beforehand, but now we hardly have to say anything anymore. He did it in Pink Flamingoes up till Serial Mom, and also for the TV show Homicide, so he’s done a lot of movies.
No, I have somebody named Vincent Peranio who has worked with me from the very beginning, doing all the art direction for my movies. It seems what people expect when they come to my home.ĭo you design the interiors for your films?
They think I’m going have ’50s, modern, collectable stuff, but I don’t have them. When people come to my house they’re always shocked because I have antiques, rare rugs and contemporary art. To me furniture is more a reflection of humour… I don’t live like my movies. It is important! It’s very important because it reveals the taste of my characters. How important is the idea of home in your movies? Questa intervista a John Waters l’ho realizzata in occasione della sua prima mostra personale alla Galleria Emi Fontana a Milano nel maggio 1997 e fu pubblicata online sul sito della rivista Abitare che era forse la prima rivista ad avere un sito in quegli anni!
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