Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
BILL CONDONI think it would be fun to write about movies again.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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