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.
BILL CONDONNo piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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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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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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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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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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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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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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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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