I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
BILL CONDONThere were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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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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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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