Bill Condon Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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