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.
BILL CONDONBut the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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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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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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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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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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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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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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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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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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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 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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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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