Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
BILL CONDONYou’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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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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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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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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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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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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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 wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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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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