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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

Bill Condon

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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
There’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
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Beautiful Book Falling Love
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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Heart Names Stuff
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
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
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
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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Beach Country Holiday
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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
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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Actors Interesting Thinking

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