Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

- John Cameron Mitchell

Nature is a series of murders.

- John Cameron Mitchell

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…

- John Cameron Mitchell

I love British female directors lately.

- John Cameron Mitchell

I feel like a goddamn hippie, I tell you.

- John Cameron Mitchell

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 ab…

- John Cameron Mitchell

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 al…

- John Cameron Mitchell

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

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 expe…

- John Cameron Mitchell