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

Bill Condon

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
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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
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
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
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
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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
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
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying

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