It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
BILL CONDONThe 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.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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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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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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Above 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.
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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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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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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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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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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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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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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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