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.
BILL CONDONIt’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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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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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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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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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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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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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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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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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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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