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.
BILL CONDONKinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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It’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
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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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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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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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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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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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