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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.

Bill Condon

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
BILL CONDON

Crowds Kind Whales
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
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
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 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
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
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

Made Phenomena Respect Success
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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
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
You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
BILL CONDON

Home Movies Things
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
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
BILL CONDON

Beach Country Holiday

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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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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