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

Bill Condon

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
I think that finding a way into somebody’s life that’s sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
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Finding One Thinking Way
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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Beach Country Holiday
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
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
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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
The thing I’ve noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you’re not alone.
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Cake Dark Real
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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Anything Making Melodrama Reveling
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
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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