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.
BILL CONDONAbove 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.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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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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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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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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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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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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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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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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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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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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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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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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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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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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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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