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.
BILL CONDONMy idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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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.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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.
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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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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’m a horrible public speaker.
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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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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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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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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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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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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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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