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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

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
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
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
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
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
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
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
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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
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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Beautiful Book Falling Love
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

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