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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.

Bill Condon

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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Director Thinking Trying
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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Gay Movement Thinking Women Years
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
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
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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Country Knowing People
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
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Adults Pieces Together
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
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People

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