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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Bill Condon

So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It’s a melodrama.
BILL CONDON

Anything Making Melodrama Reveling
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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Couple Two Years
You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
BILL CONDON

Home Movies Things
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
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.
BILL CONDON

Beautiful Book Falling Love
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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Bus Character Home
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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.
BILL CONDON

Cake Dark Real
You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.
BILL CONDON

Captured Moment Comes Stand
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
BILL CONDON

Impose Morality Years
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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Actors Interesting Thinking
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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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Country Knowing People
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.
BILL CONDON

Couple Girl Mean
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
BILL CONDON

Feet Leader Men
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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Family Friend Scared Shared

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