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.
BILL CONDONWhen 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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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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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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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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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We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
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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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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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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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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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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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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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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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