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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Bill Condon

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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
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
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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
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
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
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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
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
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
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Adults Pieces Together
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales

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