Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Music, Theater)
"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Life, People, Being, Heroes)
"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Music, Film, Theater, Writing)
"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."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Imagination, Identity)
"There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: People, Country, 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."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Movies, Imagination, Drama, Old, Television, Years)
"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."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Music, Sound)
"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."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Death, Horror, Night, Sound)
"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."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Being, Fiction, Identity, Now)
"I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Blood)
"Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Life, Being, World)
"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."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Men, Movies, Women, Action, Exploitation, Film, Growing up, Now)
"Everything matters. Time is precious."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Time)
"But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: People, Dance, End, Joy, Play, Sense, Want)
"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Mother, 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."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Being, Feeling, Post)
"I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Love, Writing)