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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bill Condon

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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Country Knowing People
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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Ensemble Epic Groups Screenshots
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
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 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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Beautiful Book Falling Love
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
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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Director Thinking Trying

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