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John Waters narrates six of his screenplays, including Hairspray and Pink Flamingoes , in new audiobook The John Waters Screenplay Collection

The filmmaker chats about the collection in an exclusive new interview with PEOPLE

Waters talks revisiting his "bad writing," what brings him joy ahead of his 80th birthday and more

John Waters is always in motion.

No, really; As the auteur of cult classics like Hairspray , Cry-Baby and Pink Flamingoes hops on a call to chat about the first-of-its-kind John Waters Screenplay Collection , he is in a moving vehicle.

After quickly reversing down a Provincetown driveway (“I don't trust these back-up cameras”), the Pope of Trash, 79, settles into his seat to tell PEOPLE about the newly released audiobook, in which he na

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