Jessica Hagedorn Quotes

The Punk Scene In Ny Was So Gritty And Nihilistic & I Was Like Ooh I Want To Do That

I Also Identify As A Latin Person, A Person Who Has Latin Blood.

I'm Preparing For A Multimedia Theater Piece, Airport Music, That's Coming Up In New York City.

There Are Certain Regions In The Country Where The Indigenous People Eat Dogs.

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'm An Underdog Person, So I Align Myself With Those Who Seem To Be Not Considered Valuable In Polite Society.

Music Is Very Influential To My Writing, As Are Theater And Film.

I Love Writing Dialogue, And I Think A Lot Of My Writing Is Visual And Very Cinematic.

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.

[on The Philippines:] ... Eighty Dialects And Languages Are Spoken; We Are A Fragmented Nation Of Loyal Believers, Divided By Blood Feuds And Controlled By The Church.

It's Not Just Nyu. There Are Days When I Feel Like I'm Stranded In Some Upscale Mall In Pasadena. Don't Even Get Me Started On The Insidious Transformation Of Bleecker Street!

All The Fabulous And Fearless Writers Gathered Here, Whether They Are Living In Manila, The Us, Or Elsewhere In The Ever-growing Philippine Diaspora, Have A Deep Connection And Abiding Love For This Crazy-making, Intoxicating City. There's Nothing Like It In The World, And They Know It.