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.
BILL CONDONIt 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.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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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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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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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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