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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

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
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
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
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
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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Captured Moment Comes Stand
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
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
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
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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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Couple Girl Mean
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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
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

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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