black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Bill Condon

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
BILL CONDON

Black Hollywood Maid
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
BILL CONDON

Homosexuals Kicks People
So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It’s a melodrama.
BILL CONDON

Anything Making Melodrama Reveling
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.
BILL CONDON

Director Fans Thinking
I’m a horrible public speaker.
BILL CONDON

Horrible Public Speakers
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.
BILL CONDON

Actors Interesting Thinking
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.
BILL CONDON

Family Friend Scared Shared
It’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
BILL CONDON

Events Spontaneity Television
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.
BILL CONDON

Ensemble Epic Groups Screenshots
For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn’t live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he’s not on the stage he’s on a bus getting to the next stage.
BILL CONDON

Bus Character Home
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
BILL CONDON

Depth Moments Overwhelming
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

Made Phenomena Respect Success
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
BILL CONDON

Fun Thinking Writing
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.
BILL CONDON

Heart Names Stuff
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
BILL CONDON

Absolutely Everything Kinsey
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
BILL CONDON

Country Knowing People

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Condon Quotes