It’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged. Bill Condon Read Quote
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me. Bill Condon Read Quote
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. Bill Condon Read Quote
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.’ Bill Condon Read Quote
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. Bill Condon Read Quote
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.’ Bill Condon Read Quote
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. Bill Condon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. Bill Condon Read Quote
