Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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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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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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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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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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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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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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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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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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.
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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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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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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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