Bill Condon Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

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

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

No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

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.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

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

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

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

Hey, Tiffany. If I have to walk - if I have to steal a horse - I'll be there

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.