I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
BILL CONDONI wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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 CONDONKinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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 CONDONFrom 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 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 CONDONNo piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
BILL CONDONAbove all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it’s time that some of that respect be returned to them.
BILL CONDONI 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.
BILL CONDONProblems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
BILL CONDONIn Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
BILL CONDONYou don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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 CONDONYou know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.
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 CONDONKinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
BILL CONDON