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I’m a horrible public speaker.

Bill Condon

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
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
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
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
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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Cake Dark Real
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.
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Family Friend Scared Shared
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
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
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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
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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Couple Two Years
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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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

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