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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.

Bill Condon

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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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Made Phenomena Respect Success
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
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
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
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
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
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
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’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’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
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
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid

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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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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