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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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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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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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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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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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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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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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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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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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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