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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bill Condon

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It’s a melodrama.
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Anything Making Melodrama Reveling
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
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
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
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
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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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

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