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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

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
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 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
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.
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Bus Character Home
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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
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
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
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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Heart Names Stuff
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
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
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
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
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
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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
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
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem 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

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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