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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

Bill Condon

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 thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
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
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
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
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
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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Ideas Study Unique
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
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
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
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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