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.
BILL CONDONSo 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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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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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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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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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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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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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