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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.