One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey. – Bill Condon
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. – Bill Condon
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. – Bill Condon
Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion. – Bill Condon
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is. – Bill Condon
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. – Bill Condon
I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine. – Bill Condon
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
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. – Bill Condon
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique. – Bill Condon
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. – Bill Condon
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. – Bill Condon
And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves. – Bill Condon
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. – 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. – Bill Condon
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. – Bill Condon
