John Waters is known as the "Prince of Puke," a moniker he embraces in both his life and his art. As he muses on his early childhood in Baltimore, Waters identifies his earliest influences, including tacky drive-in movies and local burlesque...

Those who think of the director John Oates as a sicko, a wacko, a pervert, a psycho, a multi-feminist, a deviant, a menace and/or a nut job will be surprised to discover, though "This Filthy World," that he would also make an excellent dinner-party guest. True, the other guests would need to have a tolerance for stories about signing rectums, but still, the guys is a raconteur of the first order. 
Neil Genzlinger
The New York Times