I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
BILL CONDONOur relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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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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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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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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