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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.

Bill Condon

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
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
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
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
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
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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
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
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
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
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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Beach Country Holiday
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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Director Fans Thinking
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution

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