User-comments culture is not useful for creating original work, I think. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Tommy Gnosis: What is that? Hedwig: It's what I've got to work with.” — John Cameron Mitchell Gnosis Copy Share Image
Drag wasn't really on Broadway. It was considered low-class. — John Cameron Mitchell Actor Copy Share Image
Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
Doing 'Hedwig' totally contributed to my acceptance of myself. — John Cameron Mitchell Acceptance Copy Share Image
I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay. — John Cameron Mitchell Catholic school Copy Share Image
Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to… — John Cameron Mitchell Chaos Copy Share Image
We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of… — John Cameron Mitchell Early life Copy Share Image
“My sex change operation got botched; my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch; now all I got is a Barbie doll… — John Cameron Mitchell Change Copy Share Image
People know what 'Hedwig' is now, and that's wonderful. It's not the same as being swamped for being on 'The Big Bang… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't like being choreographed to a T. I like to take steps and make them my own. — John Cameron Mitchell Being Copy Share Image
I thought, 'O.K., if I'm a valuable person and an independent entity, then I don't have to worry about what people think… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance,… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I walk out of my apartment, and St. Vincent's is standing there like a ghost ship. That was the ground zero of… — John Cameron Mitchell Ground zero Copy Share Image
I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be… — John Cameron Mitchell Culture Copy Share Image
I remember being afraid of doing drag when I was younger because I didn't really like my feminine side - most gay… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to audition, so it's important that everybody who auditions, even if I know right off they're not… — John Cameron Mitchell Actor Copy Share Image
You're on Facebook, and you're supposed to know your sexual orientation at 13... Nobody really knows what's going on at that time,… — John Cameron Mitchell Facebook Copy Share Image
You get all these French directors who have all these pretty, vacuous stars of their movies - from Jean Seberg on -… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
Compared to other liberal cities like San Francisco and Amsterdam, New Yorkers are always trying to do something, make art or love… — John Cameron Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting. — John Cameron Mitchell Acting Copy Share Image
I remember my girlfriend dropped me for the guy I thought was really cute. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill. — John Cameron Mitchell Calming Copy Share Image
We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art. — John Cameron Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
We're all weirdly single, middle-aged women with too much money who look to fill the void with too much shopping. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium. — John Cameron Mitchell Equilibrium Copy Share Image
Some people end up becoming just a conservator of the one thing they did and making sure they get their merch out… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
If I wanted to make a lot of money with 'Hedwig,' I could have spent all my time on it. But that's… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
