It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
BILL CONDONI wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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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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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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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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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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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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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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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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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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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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