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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.

Bill Condon

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
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
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Actors Interesting Thinking
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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Ideas Study Unique
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
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
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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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Heart Names Stuff
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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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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