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It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

Bill Condon

There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
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
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
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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
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
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
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Actors Interesting Thinking
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
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
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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Director Fans Thinking
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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Family Friend Scared Shared
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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
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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Couple Two Years

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