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
I'm a horrible public speaker.
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.
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
The fact is, these are actors playing parts, and maybe it's not such a bad thing that people be reminded of that. Both of these actors gave heart and soul to the Twilight movies, not only during shooting, but also by navigating so graciously the whole life-in-a-fishbowl aspect of the phenomenon. Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it's time that some of that respect be returned to them.
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.'
One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
The real question is the tension between everyone's specific sexuality and the desire to belong, to fit in, to feel like a part of the group.
I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.