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 CONDONSometimes 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.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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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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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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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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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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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.
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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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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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