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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

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.
BILL CONDON

Finding One Thinking Way
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
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
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
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
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
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
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
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.
BILL CONDON

Couple Two Years
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
BILL CONDON

Depth Moments Overwhelming
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
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.
BILL CONDON

Heart Names Stuff
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
BILL CONDON

Black Hollywood Maid

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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