John Cameron Mitchell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Let It Go #Trying #Figures
Nature is a series of murders.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Murder #Series
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

#Sex #People #Hollywood
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

#Crush #Country #Sex
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.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Firsts #Internet #Trump
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

#Actors #Pieces #Want
Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Revolutionary #Chekhov #Beckett
I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Wanted #Felt
I always wonder about psychopaths, just because they have no empathy, does that necessarily mean they enjoy being cruel? Because we all know people who seem to have no empathy that we work with; they're not necessarily cruel.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Mean #People #Empathy
I love when a director says, "I don't know."
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Directors #Knows
Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Kids #Literature #Dystopian
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

#Important #Auditions #Saying Thank You
The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Trouble #Bigger #Budgets
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

#Art #Sex #Essentials
I love British female directors lately.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Directors #Female #British
I feel like a ***** hippie, I tell you.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Hippie #Feels
I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Needed

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