There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
BILL CONDONKinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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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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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I 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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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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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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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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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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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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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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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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