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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I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.

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

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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

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

Bill Condon

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

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

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

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

Bill Condon

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.

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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.

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

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

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

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

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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 makin...

Bill Condon

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 abo...

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

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Hey, Tiffany. If I have to walk - if I have to steal a horse - I'll be there

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I like you but you mightn't feel the same way about me, and I wouldn't blame you. To save us both from any awkward moments I've figured out an easy way to do this. Nod if you're even slightly interested in getting to know me. Write a ten page explana...

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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.

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Author Bio

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