Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
BILL CONDONOur relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
BILL CONDONI 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.
BILL CONDONYou’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.
BILL CONDONI 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.
BILL CONDONI’m a horrible public speaker.
BILL CONDONI wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
BILL CONDONThere were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
BILL CONDONKinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
BILL CONDONYou know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.
BILL CONDONIt 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.
BILL CONDONWe knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
BILL CONDONIn Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
BILL CONDONKinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
BILL CONDONIt’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
BILL CONDONFirst of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
BILL CONDONThat 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.
BILL CONDON