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

Bill Condon

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
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
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
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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
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
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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
Sometimes words just don’t get you there… don’t let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.
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Heart Names Stuff
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
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 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
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
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
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
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
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
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
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
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying

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