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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

Bill Condon

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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
Sometimes words just don’t get you there… don’t let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.
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Heart Names Stuff
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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Gay Movement Thinking Women Years
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
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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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Cake Dark Real
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
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
It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Country Indiana Odd Things
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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
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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Captured Moment Comes Stand
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
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
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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Made Phenomena Respect Success

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