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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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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
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 was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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
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
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
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
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
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
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
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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Anything Making Melodrama Reveling
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
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

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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