103 Quotes by John Cameron Mitchell

If I wanted to make a lot of money with 'Hedwig,' I could have spent all my time on it. But that's boring.

'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.

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.

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

What's interesting is that some of the things I'm interested in talking about is a story which has to do with the second half of your life, which can be told through Hedwig's voice because she's older. If the timeline is consistent, she's as old as me.

I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It's sort of knocked out of you in junior high. I wouldn't find guys who were very feminine attractive. Then, doing 'Hedwig,' I got to be man and woman, really butch and really femme at the same time, and I realized, this is kind of the ideal.

I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there.

You get all these French directors who have all these pretty, vacuous stars of their movies - from Jean Seberg on - who have become iconic but were never really good actors.

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, and people seem to... know stuff, or they have to act like they do, and they make decisions before they really need to.