15 Quotes by Jessica Hagedorn
- I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
- I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
- Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
- My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.
- There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
- We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
- I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.
- There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.
- I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.
- I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
- Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.
- Everything matters. Time is precious.
- Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
- I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.
- I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
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