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, '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.
Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
I knew, as opposed to Gods And Monsters, this had to deal with Kinsey's early experiences in childhood and early marriage as they informed who he was.
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.