My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
BILL CONDONMy idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
BILL CONDONBut 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.
BILL CONDONI 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 CONDONYou don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
BILL CONDONI 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.
BILL CONDONKinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
BILL CONDONWhen 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.
BILL CONDONKinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
BILL CONDONAbove 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.
BILL CONDONWe knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
BILL CONDONFor 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.
BILL CONDONI 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.
BILL CONDONYou’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 CONDONIt 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.
BILL CONDONFrom 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.
BILL CONDONThat 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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