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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

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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
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
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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Finding One Thinking Way
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
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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Made Phenomena Respect Success
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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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Bus Character Home
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
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 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
It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Country Indiana Odd Things
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
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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Like Pushing Still Weird
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
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
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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Beautiful Book Falling Love
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
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
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
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
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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Impose Morality Years
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution

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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