My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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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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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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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Sometimes words just don’t get you there… don’t let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.
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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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 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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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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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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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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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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