Bill Condon Quotes

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Bill Condon

Profession : Director

Birth : October 22, 1955

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.

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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I'm a horrible public speaker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

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

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

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

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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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