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
From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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.
I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.
Sometimes words just don't get you there... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.
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.
Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.