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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

I will say that Lynda Carter is an awesome woman.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

Courage is knowing what to fear.

Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion.

I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.