Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

- 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

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'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

- 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

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

- John Cameron Mitchell

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

- John Cameron Mitchell