First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
BILL CONDONBut 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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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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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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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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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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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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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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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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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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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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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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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