Bill Condon Quotes
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
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Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
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One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
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We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
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I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
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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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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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I'm a horrible public speaker.
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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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No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
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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. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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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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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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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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And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
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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. 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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.