We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
BILL CONDONBecause his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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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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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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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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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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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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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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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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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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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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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 himself collected absolutely everything.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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