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 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 CONDONMy idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
BILL CONDONI 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.
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 CONDONSometimes 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.
BILL CONDONNo piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
BILL CONDONThe 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.
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’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
BILL CONDONOur relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
BILL CONDONThat 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.
BILL CONDONProblems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
BILL CONDONI think it would be fun to write about movies again.
BILL CONDONKinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
BILL CONDONI do think that’s so much a part of what being a director is – in working with actors – to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
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