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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.

Bill Condon

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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Ideas Study Unique
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
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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
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
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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
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
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
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
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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Actors Interesting Thinking
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
BILL CONDON

Successful Whales Wonderful

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