Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
BILL CONDONMy idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.
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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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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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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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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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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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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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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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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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