There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
BILL CONDONMy idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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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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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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.
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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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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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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’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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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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