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John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

American - Actor | April 21, 1963 -

I've seen things change and people forget: the history of Berlin, the history of queer struggle, the history of AIDS, the history of New York changing from an artistic powerhouse to more of a financial one now.

John Cameron Mitchell

Change History Struggle New York New

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

Time School Rock Star Kind Rock

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

Family Freedom Money Cool Growing Up

I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.

John Cameron Mitchell

Community Me Building Short Perfect

'Hedwig' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.

John Cameron Mitchell

Thinking Born Piece Theater

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

Walk New York Ship New Conservative

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

Mom Looking Boy She Monsters Quest

I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.

John Cameron Mitchell

School Growing Up Small Easy Gay Up

I remember my girlfriend dropped me for the guy I thought was really cute.

John Cameron Mitchell

Cute Me Thought Remember Girlfriend

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.

John Cameron Mitchell

Time Woman Man Think Doing You

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

Success People Nobody Say First

If you go for the money first and try to think of what other people want to see, you change your original inspiration and perhaps put out something that's less original and less personal and maybe less satisfying.

John Cameron Mitchell

Change Money People Think You Want

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