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You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.

Bill Condon

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
BILL CONDON

Crowds Kind Whales
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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Couple Two Years
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
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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Made Phenomena Respect Success
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
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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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Family Friend Scared Shared
We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
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Like Pushing Still Weird
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.
BILL CONDON

Finding One Thinking Way
You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.
BILL CONDON

Captured Moment Comes Stand
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
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
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.
BILL CONDON

Cake Dark Real
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
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
BILL CONDON

Impose Morality Years
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.
BILL CONDON

Bus Character Home

You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.

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