Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
BILL CONDONKinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
BILL CONDONKinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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 CONDONI’m a horrible public speaker.
BILL CONDONProblems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
BILL CONDONKinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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 CONDONFor 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 CONDONWhen 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.
BILL CONDONI 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.
BILL CONDONFirst of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
BILL CONDONIt’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
BILL CONDONThe 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.
BILL CONDONThere’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
BILL CONDONWe’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
BILL CONDONBecause his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
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