I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
BILL CONDONI 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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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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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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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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I do think that’s so much a part of what being a director is – in working with actors – to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
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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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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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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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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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Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it’s time that some of that respect be returned to them.
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