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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

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
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
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
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
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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 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
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
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
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
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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