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Bill Condon

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
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
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
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Actors Interesting Thinking
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
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
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
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
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
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
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
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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Captured Moment Comes Stand
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.
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Couple Girl Mean

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