But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
BILL CONDONBut 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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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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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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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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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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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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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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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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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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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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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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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