Quotes by Bill Condon

About Bill Condon:

William "Bill" Condon 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.
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The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in ...

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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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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.

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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.

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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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'...

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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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I'm a horrible public speaker.

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

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameBill Condon
  • DescriptionAmerican film director
  • BornOctober 22, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Film Director