Bill Condon

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged. ”

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

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. ”

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