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 CONDONKinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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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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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 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’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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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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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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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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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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