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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

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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Adults Pieces Together
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
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
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
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
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 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 in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
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Events Spontaneity Television
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
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
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey

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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