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.
BILL CONDONThere’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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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.
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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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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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You’ve got friends and family. That’s how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we’re scared – no, especially when we’re scared.
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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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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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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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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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