John Cameron Mitchell Quotes & Sayings

Eve just wanted to know shit. — John Cameron Mitchell

Tommy Gnosis: What is that?
Hedwig: It's what I've got to work with. — John Cameron Mitchell

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! — John Cameron Mitchell

I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it ... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it. — John Cameron Mitchell

If there's anything I know about directing, it's how to make actors comfortable. It's where I started and it's what I know, and it's what I love. I like when the actors are really partners and I want them to be excited and I want them to surprise me. I don't want them to be puzzle pieces. — John Cameron Mitchell

There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country ... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it. — John Cameron Mitchell

It's just odd that something as essential in life as sex has been flattened out in mainstream cinema - and in art cinema. Even in art movies, sex always seems to be treated negatively. Why does it always end in disaster? — John Cameron Mitchell

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. — John Cameron Mitchell

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is. — John Cameron Mitchell

My sex change operation got botched; my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch; now all I got is a Barbie doll crotch; I've got an angry inch! — John Cameron Mitchell

It is clear that I must find my other half. But is it a he or a she? What does this person look like? Identical to me? Or somehow complementary? Does my other half have what I don't? Did he get the looks? The luck? The love? Were we really separated forceably or did he just run off with the good stuff? Or did I? Will this person embarrass me? What about sex? Is that how we put ourselves back together again? Or can two people actually become one again? — John Cameron Mitchell

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 right for it, has a good experience. So I'll never just have someone do one pass at it and say "Thank you". — John Cameron Mitchell