Top 30 Bill Condon Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people’s lives don’t have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

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.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

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.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.

It’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

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

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.

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

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

I’m a horrible public speaker.

Like many of you, I’ve always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series ‘Dark Shadows,’ which I followed avidly as a kid.

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.

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

It’s an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

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

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.

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