Bill Condon quotes - page 2

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me. View quote
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It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out. View quote
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No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.' View quote
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One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey. View quote
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I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine. (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. View quote
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And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves. View quote
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Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen. View quote
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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. View quote
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