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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

I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
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’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Country Indiana Odd Things
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
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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Gay Movement Thinking Women Years
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
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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Finding One Thinking Way
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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Captured Moment Comes Stand
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
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 wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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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Country Knowing People

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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