Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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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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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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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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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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Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it’s time that some of that respect be returned to them.
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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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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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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’m a horrible public speaker.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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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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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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