Bill Condon Quotes
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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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
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I never want to bore the public.
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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.'
