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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.

Bill Condon

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
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
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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Captured Moment Comes Stand
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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Couple Two Years
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
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
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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Impose Morality Years
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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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Heart Names Stuff
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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Beach Country Holiday

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