Quotes By Bill Condon

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

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

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.

While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

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.'

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

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.