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Bill Condon

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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Gay Movement Thinking Women Years
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.
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Director Fans Thinking
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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Impose Morality Years
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Country Indiana Odd Things
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
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Actors Interesting Thinking
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Adults Pieces Together
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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.
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Couple Two Years
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.
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Bus Character Home
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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Ideas Study Unique
You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Home Movies Things

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