I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
BILL CONDONI 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.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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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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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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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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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Sometimes words just don’t get you there… don’t let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.
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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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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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