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• And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their s*xual acts was limiting themselves.

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

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• Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s s*xuality is unique.

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

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• I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

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• I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about s*x because that is his subject not mine.

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• 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.

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

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

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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.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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• I’m a horrible public speaker.

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• Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

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Bill Condon (30)

Birth:	22nd October, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Screenwriter

About

Bill Condon was born in New York City. He is an American screenwriter and director. Condon is best known for directing and writing the critically acclaimed films Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, Dreamgirls and the two final installments of the Twilight series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. In 1998, Condon debuted as a screenwriter with Gods and Monsters, which won him his first Academy Award. He was also nominated for writing Chicago in 2003. In 2006, Condon won a Golden Globe for his film Dreamgirls, which he also wrote. Condon's films have usually been commercial successes. In June 2014, it was announced Condon would direct a live-action film adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.

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