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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
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
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
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
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
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
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
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
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
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

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