John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

• 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

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• Nature is a series of murders.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Murder, Series

  "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• 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

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Biography/Personal Quotes".

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• Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Revolutionary, Chekhov, Beckett

  "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  "'Rabbit Hole' director inspired by personal tragedies". Interview with Cassie Carpenter, www.reuters.com. December 20, 2010.

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• 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

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Wanted, Felt

  "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Needed

  "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• 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

  "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• I love when a director says, "I don't know."

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Directors, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Kids, Literature, Dystopian

  "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Trouble, Bigger, Budgets

  "'Rabbit Hole' director inspired by personal tragedies". Interview with Cassie Carpenter, uk.reuters.com. December 20, 2010.

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• 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

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• I love British female directors lately.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Directors, Female, British

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like a goddamn hippie, I tell you.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Hippie, Feels

  "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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