Bill Condon Quotes

• The fact is, these are actors playing parts, and maybe it's not such a bad thing that people be reminded of that. Both of these actors gave heart and soul to the Twilight movies, not only during shooting, but also by navigating so graciously the whole life-in-a-fishbowl aspect of the phenomenon. Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it's time that some of that respect be returned to them.

  Bill Condon

  Twilight, Heart, People

  "This Week's Cover: 'Twilight' Exclusive -- Director Bill Condon on the scandal. Plus: Fall movie preview!", www.ew.com. August 7, 2012.

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• 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.

  Bill Condon

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Book

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• The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we're scared - no, especially when we're scared.

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  Real, Dark, Cake

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• For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn't live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he's not on the stage he's on a bus getting to the next stage. You don't really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.

  Bill Condon

  Home, Character, Bus

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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  Together, Adults, Pieces

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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.

  Bill Condon

  Gay, Thinking, Years

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

  Bill Condon

  Catholic, Church, Way

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

  Bill Condon

  Unique, Ideas, Study

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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.

  Bill Condon

  Knowing, People, Mexican

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• Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

  Bill Condon

  Kinsey

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

  Bill Condon

  People, Homosexual, Kicks

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

  Bill Condon

  Whales, Crowds, Kind

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

  Bill Condon

  New York, Odd Things, Indiana

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

  Bill Condon

  Successful, Whales, Wonderful

  "Writer-director Bill Condon passionately praises the subject of his biopic". www.contactmusic.com. January 7, 2009.

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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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  Thinking, Directors, Fans

  "Bill Condon Tells the Story Behind "Dreamgirls". "News & Notes" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. December 21, 2006.

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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.

  Bill Condon

  Epic, Groups, Ensemble

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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.

  Bill Condon

  Fun, Twilight, Thinking

  "You Can’t Kill Them: Bill Condon on Breaking Dawn Part 2" by Fred Topel, www.mandatory.com. November 13, 2012.

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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.

  Bill Condon

  Couple, Years, Two

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

  Bill Condon

  Beach, New York, Holiday

  "'BREAKING DAWN': NEW PHOTOS AND A CHAT WITH THE DIRECTOR!". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. August 28, 2012.

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

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  People, Trying, Problem

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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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  Depth, Moments, Overwhelming

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• 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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  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

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• I'm a horrible public speaker.

  Bill Condon

  Horrible, Speakers

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

  Bill Condon

  Past, Whales, Connections

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• That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.

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  Girl, Couple, Mean

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