A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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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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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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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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.
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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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Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it’s time that some of that respect be returned to them.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn’t live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he’s not on the stage he’s on a bus getting to the next stage.
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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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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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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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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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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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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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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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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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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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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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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and 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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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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