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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

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
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
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
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
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Country Indiana Odd Things
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
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
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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Impose Morality Years
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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Depth Moments Overwhelming

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