We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
BILL CONDONWe’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
BILL CONDONIt’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
BILL CONDONProblems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
BILL CONDONWhen 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.
BILL CONDONBut 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.
BILL CONDONKinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
BILL CONDONIt’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
BILL CONDONSo I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It’s a melodrama.
BILL CONDONYou’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.
BILL CONDONIt 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 CONDONA scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
BILL CONDONThere’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.
BILL CONDONKinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
BILL CONDONWe knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
BILL CONDONOur relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
BILL CONDONI’m a horrible public speaker.
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