Bill Condon quotes

I'm a horrible public speaker. (Bill Condon)
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug. View quote
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I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face. View quote
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. View quote
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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. View quote
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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd. View quote
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is. View quote
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything. View quote
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It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana. (Bill Condon)
There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. View quote
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. View quote
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Sometimes words just don't get you there... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for. View quote
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A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie. View quote
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But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years. View quote
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I 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion. View quote
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality. View quote
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution. (Bill Condon)
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. View quote
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again. View quote
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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. View quote
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Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique. View quote
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