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Bill Condon

Profession : Director

Birth : October 22, 1955

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.

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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.'

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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