Quotes By Bill Condon

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

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

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 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.'

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.

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

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.

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

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

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.