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

Bill Condon

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
That 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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Couple Girl Mean
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
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
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
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
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
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
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

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