Bill Condon

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.' ”

I'm a horrible public speaker. ”

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

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

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”