I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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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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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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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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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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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’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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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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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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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