John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

Nature is a series of murders.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn.

I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.

I love British female directors lately.

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

Anger is so constructive.