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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.

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
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 think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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
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’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 thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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
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
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
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
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
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Actors Interesting Thinking
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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Gay Movement Thinking Women Years
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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
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
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
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
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
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
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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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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