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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

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
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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Ideas Study Unique
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
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
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
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
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
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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 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
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
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
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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
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
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
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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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Couple Two 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
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey

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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