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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 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
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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Bus Character Home
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
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
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
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
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Adults Pieces Together
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
We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
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Like Pushing Still Weird
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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Events Spontaneity Television
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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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Family Friend Scared Shared

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