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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

Bill Condon

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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem 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
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
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
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
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
You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Home Movies Things
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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
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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
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
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
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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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Heart Names Stuff
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
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
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
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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales

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