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

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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 figures trying

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

hollywood sex people

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

trump internet firsts

Nature is a series of murders. by John Cameron Mitchell

Nature is a series of murders.

John Cameron Mitchell

series murder

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revol... by John Cameron Mitchell

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

John Cameron Mitchell

beckett chekhov revolutionary

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

empathy mean people

I love when a director says, "I don't know." by John Cameron Mitchell

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

John Cameron Mitchell

knows directors

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know. by John Cameron Mitchell

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

John Cameron Mitchell

dystopian literature kids

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

saying-thank-you auditions important

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is. by John Cameron Mitchell

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

John Cameron Mitchell

budgets bigger trouble

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

essentials sex art

I love British female directors lately. by John Cameron Mitchell

I love British female directors lately.

John Cameron Mitchell

british female directors

I feel like a goddamn hippie, I tell you. by John Cameron Mitchell

I feel like a goddamn hippie, I tell you.

John Cameron Mitchell

hippie feels

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed. by John Cameron Mitchell

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

John Cameron Mitchell

needed

I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted. by John Cameron Mitchell

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

John Cameron Mitchell

felt wanted

There's something cool about being a stealth classic. by John Cameron Mitchell

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

John Cameron Mitchell

something being cool classic

Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels... by John Cameron Mitchell

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

John Cameron Mitchell

angels dance feet world

As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past b... by John Cameron Mitchell

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

John Cameron Mitchell

you beautiful-things beautiful past

The best things happen in the dark. by John Cameron Mitchell

The best things happen in the dark.

John Cameron Mitchell

happen best things-happen dark