For 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.
BILL CONDONMy idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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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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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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We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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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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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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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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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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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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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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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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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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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