Mr Know-It-All

An exuberantly transgressive American filmmaker gets down, dirty, and weird about life, art, and career … Comic and rude but always compulsively readable, Waters demonstrates that he is not only first among Filth Elders; he is also a keen observer of American culture. Wickedly smart and consistently laugh-out-loud funny - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Nothing can squelch [John Waters’] outrageous imagination … If you don’t laugh loud and often, check your pulse, then your breath on a mirror - Ray Olson, Booklist

Endlessly entertaining … Waters’s musings are as funny and eccentric as his films; longtime fans will be delighted with the treasure trove of insights into his brilliant oeuvre. - Publishers Weekly

The essays are wildly discursive and funny. - The Guardian

There are walk-on parts for the likes of Kathleen Turner (“Sure, Kathleen liked a cocktail”) and Justin Bieber (who drew a Waters moustache on to his own hairless upper lip), and freewheeling musings on music and food. Waters here is a raconteur on top form. - New Statesman

This is the work of a deliciously entertaining, irreverent genius - Attitude magazine

Even if you’ve never seen a single frame of the sublimely trashy oeuvre of director John Waters, Mr-Know-it-All is this year’s standout film autobiography. - Evening Standard