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There’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

Bill Condon

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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Ensemble Epic Groups Screenshots
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
I do think that’s so much a part of what being a director is – in working with actors – to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
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Director Thinking Trying
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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Couple Girl Mean
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Adults Pieces Together
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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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Director Fans Thinking
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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Made Phenomena Respect Success
There’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
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Beautiful Book Falling Love
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Home Movies Things
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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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Finding One Thinking Way
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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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Like Pushing Still Weird
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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Events Spontaneity Television
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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Anything Making Melodrama Reveling
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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Gay Movement Thinking Women Years
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
The thing I’ve noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you’re not alone.
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Cake Dark Real
It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Country Indiana Odd Things
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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Family Friend Scared Shared

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