Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama.… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects.… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic. — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough. — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
“The Suffering Pilipino: We Pinoys suffer collectively from a cultural inferiority complex. We are doomed by our need for assimilation into the West and… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
