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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

No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
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
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
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
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
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
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
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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Made Phenomena Respect Success
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
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
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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Ensemble Epic Groups Screenshots
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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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Captured Moment Comes Stand
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
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
It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Country Indiana Odd Things
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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Depth Moments Overwhelming
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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
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 think that finding a way into somebody’s life that’s sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
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Finding One Thinking Way
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
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales

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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