Quotes from Bill Condon

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

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

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.'

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

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

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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