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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.

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

John Cameron Mitchell

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

'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.

John Cameron Mitchell

I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.

John Cameron Mitchell

People know what 'Hedwig' is now, and that's wonderful. It's not the same as being swamped for being on 'The Big Bang Theory,' but it's much more comfortable.

John Cameron Mitchell

Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

John Cameron Mitchell

New York is so unique, and you are not always encouraged to consider the people in the city your neighbors because of the fast pace and surface anonymity.

John Cameron Mitchell

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to be believable.

John Cameron Mitchell

Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to listen to if you're gay... What are you supposed to look like? What's your body supposed to look like?

John Cameron Mitchell

Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.

John Cameron Mitchell

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.

John Cameron Mitchell

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

John Cameron Mitchell

I guess historically, drag queens were imitating movie stars and luminaries. It's kind of nice to have a movie star imitating a drag queen.

John Cameron Mitchell

Anger is so constructive.

John Cameron Mitchell

I really want as many people as possible to relate to something, without compromising or dumbing down.

John Cameron Mitchell

It's the weird thing that actors do: You jumped across that building because the scene required it.

John Cameron Mitchell

London is the English-speaking theatre capital.

John Cameron Mitchell

Neil Patrick Harris is a superman of entertainment.

John Cameron Mitchell

I've obviously always been aware of actor-oriented films, being an actor. Altman and Cassavetes were really strong. And then I realized their structures were quite fascinating, too.

John Cameron Mitchell

There are a lot of silly projects out there.

John Cameron Mitchell

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

John Cameron Mitchell

I walk out of my apartment, and St. Vincent's is standing there like a ghost ship. That was the ground zero of AIDS in New York: a conservative institution that quickly adapted to its unconventional patients and made heroic efforts to try and save them.

John Cameron Mitchell

Isn't it funny - why is it called a tennis bracelet? It doesn't seem very tennis, does it?

John Cameron Mitchell

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

John Cameron Mitchell

Compared to other liberal cities like San Francisco and Amsterdam, New Yorkers are always trying to do something, make art or love or money or whatever, and they have this phobia about standing still.

John Cameron Mitchell

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

John Cameron Mitchell

I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.

John Cameron Mitchell

I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.

John Cameron Mitchell

I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics.

John Cameron Mitchell

I would love for 'Hedwig' to be in every tiny shopping mall so every freakish kid like I was can have a broadening experience.

John Cameron Mitchell

'Hedwig' is not autobiographical, but what she goes through is clearly a big metaphor. She doesn't want to be what she is, but she comes to an understanding that what happened to her has actually made her whole.

John Cameron Mitchell

My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'

John Cameron Mitchell

I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.'

John Cameron Mitchell

Hedwig is on a quest; she's on a quest as much as Jason and the Argonauts, as much as the boy in 'A.I.' She's looking for something. She's looking for her other half, and she's on tour. Monsters, Cyclops - maybe they're her mom? - appear on various islands.

John Cameron Mitchell

The best things happen in the dark.

John Cameron Mitchell

Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.

John Cameron Mitchell