John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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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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'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.
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Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.
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I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there.
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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 don't like being choreographed to a T. I like to take steps and make them my own.
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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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'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.
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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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Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.
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I remember my girlfriend dropped me for the guy I thought was really cute.
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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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I've always liked a good joke that everybody can laugh at.
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There's something cool about being a stealth classic.
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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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I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art.
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Neil Patrick Harris is a superman of entertainment.
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I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.
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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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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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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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We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.
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Hedwig is on a quest; she's on a quest as much as Jason and the Argonauts, as much as the boy in 'A.I.' She's looking for something. She's looking for her other half, and she's on tour. Monsters, Cyclops - maybe they're her mom? - appear on various islands.