Bill Condon Quotes

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
Bill Condon

Character, Put, Movie

Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
Bill Condon

Movies, Loved, Actually

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
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Thought, Themselves, Anybody

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.
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Study, Everyone, Idea

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
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Science, Become, Morality

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.
Bill Condon

Someone, Moment, Big

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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Time, Business, Knowing

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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Change, Group, Story

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.
Bill Condon

Try, Working, Actor

I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.
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Fun, Done, Thought

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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God, Movies, Made

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
Bill Condon

Sex, Mine, Subject

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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Lives, Works, Dramatic

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
Bill Condon

Movies, Fun, Again

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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Life, Greatest, Person

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
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Past, Between, Wanted

I'm a horrible public speaker.
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Public, Horrible, Speaker

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black, Through, English

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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Live, Small, Living

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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Movie, York, Odd

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
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Nature, Live, Become

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Everything, Himself, Absolutely

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Started, Activity, Homosexual

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
Bill Condon

Thought, Dangerous, Church

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
Bill Condon

Men, Leader, Quality

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Nationality: American

Born: October 22, 1955

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