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" Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen. "
Seen
Movies
Loved
" And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves. "
Themselves
Thought
Who
" Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique. "
Unique
Sexuality
Got
" 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. "
Someone
You
Think
" First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. "
Time
People
Mexican
" 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. "
He
Actor
Director
" I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine. "
Sex
More
Mine
" I'm a horrible public speaker. "
Horrible
Speaker
Public
" In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. "
Maids
Hollywood
Black
" I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying. "
Think
Because
Dramatic
" I think it would be fun to write about movies again. "
Again
About
Write
" 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. "
Person
You
Way
" 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. "
You
Interesting
Think
" It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana. "
New York
New
Go
" I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present. "
Past
Whale
Present
" Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything. "
Kinsey
Absolutely
Everything
" Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is. "
Activity
People
Much
" Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. "
Way
Church
Dangerous
" Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality. "
Foot
Quality
Men
" Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution. "
Identify
Feelings
Moments
" One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey. "
Who
Source
Kinsey
" Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug. "
Rug
Some People
Try
" There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. "
Wonderful
Question
Successful
" We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd. "
Knew
Whale
Crowd
" 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. "
Monster
Monsters
Us
" 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. "
Think
Movement
Line
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