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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

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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Beach Country Holiday
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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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Country Knowing People
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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Actors Interesting Thinking
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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Anything Making Melodrama Reveling
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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Events Spontaneity Television
You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Home Movies Things
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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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Like Pushing Still Weird
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Country Indiana Odd Things
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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Couple Girl Mean
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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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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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Captured Moment Comes Stand
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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Director Thinking Trying
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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Director Fans Thinking
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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Impose Morality Years
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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Heart Names Stuff
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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Depth Moments Overwhelming
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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Ideas Study Unique
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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Ensemble Epic Groups Screenshots
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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Finding One Thinking Way

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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