Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
Bill Condon

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
Bill Condon

One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
Bill Condon

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
Bill Condon

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
Bill Condon

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
Bill Condon

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.
Bill Condon

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.
Bill Condon

While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
Bill Condon