We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
BILL CONDONA scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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It’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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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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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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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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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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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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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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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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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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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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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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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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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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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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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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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