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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More Bill Condon Quotes
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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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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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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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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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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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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There’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.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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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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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