John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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Some people end up becoming just a conservator of the one thing they did and making sure they get their merch out and all that.
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Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.
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I am just touched at how strongly the real Hed-heads feel. It feels different from other kinds of devotees; maybe it's the way I felt with certain bands when I was a kid. It feels like a band more than a play.
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I would love for 'Hedwig' to be in every tiny shopping mall so every freakish kid like I was can have a broadening experience.
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I remember being afraid of doing drag when I was younger because I didn't really like my feminine side - most gay guys at some point are told that that's the worst part of you, so that becomes a negative thing.
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'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.
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Neil Patrick Harris is a superman of entertainment.
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Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort of a neutral person. 'Don't do anything to your hair. Don't tell them your age. Don't tell them you're gay. Don't tell them anything that could limit you, specify you as a person.' I always hated that, actually moved out of L.A. because of that.
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Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to listen to if you're gay... What are you supposed to look like? What's your body supposed to look like?
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I remember my girlfriend dropped me for the guy I thought was really cute.
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'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.
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User-comments culture is not useful for creating original work, I think.
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Doing 'Hedwig' totally contributed to my acceptance of myself.
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Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.
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I guess historically, drag queens were imitating movie stars and luminaries. It's kind of nice to have a movie star imitating a drag queen.
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I don't like being choreographed to a T. I like to take steps and make them my own.
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There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's innuendo and stuff, but not more than you'd see on TV.
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There's something cool about being a stealth classic.
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I've always liked a good joke that everybody can laugh at.
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Bob Fosse, even though he wasn't gay. He was certainly queer and had a huge effect on the 'Hedwig' film, as did Hal Ashby and Robert Altman, who had a weird butch queer feeling about him. His films almost flirted with camp but in an extremely realistic acting way.
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The think that we hung the film version all on was 'Hedwig' on tour. On stage, it's one theatre, one show. It just seemed natural to change it. In the film, we were able to go to flashback rather than have her talk to the audience. And we had the play to practice and to see where we had made mistakes.
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New York is so unique, and you are not always encouraged to consider the people in the city your neighbors because of the fast pace and surface anonymity.
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'Hedwig' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.
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Obviously, when you get into larger budgets, you have less of that freedom, and I just - I'm not a person that tends to make stories for those larger budgets. To me, it's not much fun to have that kind of pressure.