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 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.
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.
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.
Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
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.
It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
I'm a horrible public speaker.
There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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.