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.
BILL CONDONWe knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
More Bill Condon Quotes
-
-
I’m a horrible public speaker.
BILL CONDON -
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
BILL CONDON -
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
BILL CONDON -
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 CONDON -
You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
BILL CONDON -
It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
BILL CONDON -
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 -
We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
BILL CONDON -
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
BILL CONDON -
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
BILL CONDON -
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
BILL CONDON -
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
BILL CONDON -
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
BILL CONDON -
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.
BILL CONDON -
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.
BILL CONDON