You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.
BILL CONDONKinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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