John Cameron Mitchell:
I loved this interview with John Cameron Mitchell on The Treatment. This part really stood out (it’s about 9:30 of the way in…)
You gotta be rich to be alone in New York. You have to be rich to be healthy, to go to Whole Foods or Yoga, you gotta be rich to be alone…Think about Preston Sturges or Ben Hecht movies. People create whirlwinds of talk in which they define themselves and protect themselves. It’s pure Woody Allen, it’s Albert Brooks. .
He veers off into some business about Noel Coward here but if I were a betting man, I’d say Mr. Mitchell would have completed his thought by adding the words “It’s very New York” at the end.
John Cameron Mitchell is the creator and star of Hedwig and the Angry Itch and the new film Shortbus which is in theatres now.