I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
BILL CONDONBecause his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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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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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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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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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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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.
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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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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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