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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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From its inception by Michael Bennett, ‘Dreamgirls’ has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn’t change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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Ensemble Epic Groups Screenshots
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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
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
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
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
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
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers

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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