You told GQ that the book makes fun of society’s rules, and you mentioned wanting to run away from the art community’s rules. The cover of John Waters’ debut novel Liarmouth. She learned that she was right and she got what she wanted by being terrible, so it’s not the usual set up in a book. But what does her winning mean and what will happen after that? How will she handle her winning? I’m not sure if she learned any lessons which is something that in most movies, in the third act, the bad person has to do. I think it does have a moral tone to it in a way, and I’m thinking basically the right person does win. It also feels in some ways like an old fashioned moral tale but it’s not entirely clear who we should route for. It’s interesting, the ridiculous positions you can take that makes it either sexually correct or incorrect as far as ideas are thought of intellectually these days. I think it’s much funnier this way because the other way would be taken as being sexist. I could write it the other way with a gay man at the head and his dick turns straight, it would be the same humour.
