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.
BILL CONDONFirst of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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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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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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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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 would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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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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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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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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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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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