Jessica Hagedorn Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.”

“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.”

“I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.”

“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.”

“Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.”