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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.

Bill Condon

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
BILL CONDON

People Problem Trying
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.
BILL CONDON

Couple Girl Mean
So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It’s a melodrama.
BILL CONDON

Anything Making Melodrama Reveling
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.
BILL CONDON

Cake Dark Real
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
BILL CONDON

Feet Leader Men
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
BILL CONDON

Feelings Moments Persecution
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
BILL CONDON

Successful Whales Wonderful
You’ve got friends and family. That’s how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we’re scared – no, especially when we’re scared.
BILL CONDON

Family Friend Scared Shared
You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.
BILL CONDON

Captured Moment Comes Stand
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
BILL CONDON

Crowds Kind Whales
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.
BILL CONDON

Couple Two Years
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
BILL CONDON

Fun Thinking Writing
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.
BILL CONDON

Heart Names Stuff
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
BILL CONDON

Black Hollywood Maid
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 CONDON

Ensemble Epic Groups Screenshots
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.
BILL CONDON

Gay Movement Thinking Women Years

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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