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Bill Condon [1955-0] American

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Director, Screenwriter

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.

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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.		101
I'm a horrible public speaker.		102
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.		103
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.		104
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.'		105
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.		106
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.		107
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.		108
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.		109
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.		110
There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.		111
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.		112
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.'		113
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.		114
It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.		115
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.	Dating	116
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.		117
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.		118
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.		119
One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.		120
And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.		121
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.		122
I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.		123
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.		124
It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.		125
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.		126
I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.		201
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.		202
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.		203
Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.		204
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.		205
Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.		206
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.		207
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.		208
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.		209
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.		210
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 making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.		211
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.		212
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.		213

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