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.
BILL CONDONKinsey 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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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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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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You’ve got friends and family. That’s how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we’re scared – no, especially when we’re scared.
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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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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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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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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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First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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