A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
BILL CONDONFirst of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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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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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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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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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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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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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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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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From its inception by Michael Bennett, ‘Dreamgirls’ has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn’t change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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