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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 Condon

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
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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
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
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
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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
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
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
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
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
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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Director Thinking Trying
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way

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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