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I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

John Cameron Mitchell

I went to theater school at Northwestern, and I was quite conservative. Reagan at the time seemed quite revolutionary, or at least a rock star: He was radical and kind of punk rock.

John Cameron Mitchell

I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.

John Cameron Mitchell

I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.

John Cameron Mitchell

Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.

John Cameron Mitchell

There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's innuendo and stuff, but not more than you'd see on TV.

John Cameron Mitchell

My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.

John Cameron Mitchell

I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.

John Cameron Mitchell

The think that we hung the film version all on was 'Hedwig' on tour. On stage, it's one theatre, one show. It just seemed natural to change it. In the film, we were able to go to flashback rather than have her talk to the audience. And we had the play to practice and to see where we had made mistakes.

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I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life.

John Cameron Mitchell

Doing 'Hedwig' totally contributed to my acceptance of myself.

John Cameron Mitchell

I don't like being choreographed to a T. I like to take steps and make them my own.

John Cameron Mitchell

Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.

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The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

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Nothing is a calling card. Everything is what you do. If you do it in order to get somewhere else, you're not actually doing it. If you're thinking, 'What is the weird thing I want to make with my friends?' money and other things will come later.

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Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.

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I never even had a MySpace.

John Cameron Mitchell

User-comments culture is not useful for creating original work, I think.

John Cameron Mitchell

Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort of a neutral person. 'Don't do anything to your hair. Don't tell them your age. Don't tell them you're gay. Don't tell them anything that could limit you, specify you as a person.' I always hated that, actually moved out of L.A. because of that.

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Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.

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As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.

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We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

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

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I don't regret anything, because I feel better every year, and if I'd done something different, maybe I wouldn't. I'm more of a whole person, the older I get.

John Cameron Mitchell

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

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