Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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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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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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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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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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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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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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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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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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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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