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.
BILL CONDONIn Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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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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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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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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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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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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