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
We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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, '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.'
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.
I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.
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.
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.