Bill Condon Quotes
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
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There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
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It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.
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There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
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I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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I'm a horrible public speaker.
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First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
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From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.
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Sometimes words just don't get you there... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn't live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he's not on the stage he's on a bus getting to the next stage. You don't really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.
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But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal. You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes - it's all about capturing the moment - in the moment, you know.
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That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.
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But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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