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 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 thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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 were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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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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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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