We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
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 would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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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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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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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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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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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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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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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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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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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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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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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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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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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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