You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
BILL CONDONIn Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
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That 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.
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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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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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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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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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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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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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