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.
BILL CONDONKinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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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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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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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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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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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.
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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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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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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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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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