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

Bill Condon

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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Director Thinking Trying
You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Home Movies Things
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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Finding One Thinking Way
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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Beach Country Holiday
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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Anything Making Melodrama Reveling
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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Depth Moments Overwhelming
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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Couple Girl Mean
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Adults Pieces Together
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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Ensemble Epic Groups Screenshots
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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Impose Morality Years
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

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