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.
BILL CONDONFirst of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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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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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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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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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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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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