First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
BILL CONDONFor me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn’t live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he’s not on the stage he’s on a bus getting to the next stage.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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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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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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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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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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