I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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 kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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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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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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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 would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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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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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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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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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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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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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The thing I’ve noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you’re not alone.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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There’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
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