John Waters refuses to hire actors who use the word “journey”. The ‘Pink Flamingos’ director, 78, renowned for gross-out scenes in his transgressive arthouse work, says he hates the phrase as it is “overused” by privileged stars – and he only thinks people fleeing war zones have the right to use it. He told People when asked if he would ever adapt anyone else’s book into a film: “Never. I have never even read a script that I didn’t write. The fun of it for me, if there’s ever fun, is thinking it up. “I wouldn’t know how to direct somebody else’s stuff. I’m a writer. Once I think it up – ‘Oh, n…