Bill Condon
Bill Condon
William "Bill" Condonis 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. In 1998, Condon debuted as a screenwriter with Gods and Monsters, which won him his first Academy Award. He was also nominated for writing Chicago in 2003. In...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 October 1955
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
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.
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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.
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we're scared - no, especially when we're scared.