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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

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’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
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
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
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
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
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

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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