There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
BILL CONDONThere were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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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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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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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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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years – which are the gay movement and the women’s movement – I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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