We're all weirdly single, middle-aged women with too much money who look to fill the void with too much shopping.
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I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art.
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As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.
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I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It's sort of knocked out of you in junior high. I wouldn't find guys who were very feminine attractive. Then, doing 'Hedwig,' I got to be man and woman, really butch and really femme at the same time, and I realized, this is kind of the ideal.
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I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.'
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Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.
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I've obviously always been aware of actor-oriented films, being an actor. Altman and Cassavetes were really strong. And then I realized their structures were quite fascinating, too.
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You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.
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I would love for 'Hedwig' to be in every tiny shopping mall so every freakish kid like I was can have a broadening experience.
