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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.

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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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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Like Pushing Still Weird
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
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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Bus Character Home
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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Beach Country Holiday
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
You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Home Movies Things
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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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Heart Names Stuff
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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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Couple Girl Mean

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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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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