John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.
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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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I remember my girlfriend dropped me for the guy I thought was really cute.
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There are a lot of silly projects out there.
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I think as far as themes, 'Hedwig' is about what music meant to you as a kid and how rock n' roll can save you; that is definitely part of it.
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I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.'
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Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.
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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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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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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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Doing 'Hedwig' totally contributed to my acceptance of myself.
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Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.
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I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.
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There's something cool about being a stealth classic.
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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.
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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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I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art.
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'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.
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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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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 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' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.
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Drag wasn't really on Broadway. It was considered low-class.
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We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.