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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.

Bill Condon

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
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
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
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
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
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
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
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

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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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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