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Bill Condon
October 22, 1955 -
Nationality: American
Category: Director
Subcategory: American Director

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

   

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

   

I'm a horrible public speaker.

   

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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