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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.

Bill Condon

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
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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Ideas Study Unique
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
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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Couple Two Years
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
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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Events Spontaneity Television
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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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Beautiful Book Falling Love
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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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Cake Dark Real
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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Family Friend Scared Shared
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Adults Pieces Together

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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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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