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.”

“But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.'”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.”

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

“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.”