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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.

Bill Condon

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
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
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
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
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
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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Adults Pieces Together
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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
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
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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Events Spontaneity Television
We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
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Like Pushing Still Weird
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
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
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
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
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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Cake Dark Real
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
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
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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
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

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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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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