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.
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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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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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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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 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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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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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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 was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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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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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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