Bill Condon quotes

Bill Condon is an American film director and screenwriter, recognized for his work on both musicals and dramas. His acclaimed films include "Gods and Monsters," "Dreamgirls," and "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn." He has received numerous awards and continues to influence contemporary cinema. Here are 40 of his quotes:

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

Bill Condon

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

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

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

Bill Condon

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

Bill Condon

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.

Bill Condon

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

Bill Condon

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

Bill Condon

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

Bill Condon

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

Bill Condon

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

Bill Condon

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.

Bill Condon

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

Bill Condon

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

Bill Condon

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

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

Bill Condon

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

Bill Condon

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

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.

Bill Condon

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

Bill Condon

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.

Bill Condon

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

Bill Condon