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

- 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

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

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

- Bill Condon

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

- Bill Condon

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

- Bill Condon

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

- Bill Condon

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

- Bill Condon

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

- Bill Condon

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

- Bill Condon

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

- Bill Condon

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

- Bill Condon

One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.

- Bill Condon

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

- Bill Condon

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.

- Bill Condon

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

- Bill Condon

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.

- Bill Condon

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

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