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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.

Bill Condon

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
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
It’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
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Events Spontaneity Television
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
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
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 wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
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 think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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
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

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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