Bill Condon

Birthday: 22 October 1955, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name: William Patrick Condon

Height: 165 cm

Bill Condon was born on October 22, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA as William Patrick Condon. He is a director and writer, known for Dreamgirls (2006), Kinsey (2004) and Gods and Monsters (1998).

Bonnie and Clyde led to two things-a love of movies at a fortunate moment when movies were really in...Show more »

Bonnie and Clyde led to two things-a love of movies at a fortunate moment when movies were really interesting, and also a love of writing about movies, because Bonnie and Clyde was written about so much. And that's what kind of ultimately pointed me in the direction of making movies as opposed to theater. Show less «

Politics do affect the Academy. The producers of La vita è bella (1997) had the support of a ...Show more »

Politics do affect the Academy. The producers of La vita è bella (1997) had the support of a much bigger studio machine and at the same time Benigni would host private dinners: Elizabeth Taylor, come and meet Roberto Benigni... you know. And the studio throws a lot of money around promoting him. That sounds like sour grapes, but it's not. It's just the way it is. Show less «

"You can imagine that a story that is so much about sex could be much more confrontational. What I w...Show more »

"You can imagine that a story that is so much about sex could be much more confrontational. What I wanted to do was create something that was more gentle and done in a classical Hollywood style, which would be true to the period in which it's taking place. You get pretty pictures of Midwestern life in the '30s and '40s, and then, suddenly, there's a clinical close-up of a vagina and a penis -- which are images you're not used to seeing in that context" [on Kinsey (2004)]. Show less «

The idea of bisexuality, that everyone is somewhere along that sliding scale, is incredibly threaten...Show more »

The idea of bisexuality, that everyone is somewhere along that sliding scale, is incredibly threatening today. Even politicians, who can hide behind the idea of a gay identity, don't know what to do with the idea that everyone is something in the middle. Show less «

We were just very surprised and delighted to get the call from (the ratings board) saying that they'...Show more »

We were just very surprised and delighted to get the call from (the ratings board) saying that they'd had a long discussion and decided that they'd learned a lot from the screening [of Kinsey (2004)]. Show less «

[on Julian Assange, the central character in his film 'The Fifth Estate'] He's clever. He conflates ...Show more »

[on Julian Assange, the central character in his film 'The Fifth Estate'] He's clever. He conflates anything that might be critical of him as an attack on WikiLeaks. But he may be surprised at how even-handed a portrait it is. Nobody set out to make some kind of hit job. We want to understand what makes him tick. I came to admire him in many ways. Show less «

Musicals are all about transitions. How you get in and out of numbers is more important than what ha...Show more »

Musicals are all about transitions. How you get in and out of numbers is more important than what happens inside of them. Show less «

Dr. Kinsey was a scientist who tried to categorize everyone and then used that process to prove that...Show more »

Dr. Kinsey was a scientist who tried to categorize everyone and then used that process to prove that everyone was different. That's a wonderful contradiction. In trying to separate sex from everything that is imposed on it by culture, religion, and society, he also, like an artist, tried to work out very deep conflicts within himself Show less «

He's somebody who's socially maladroit, he's obsessive, he's a scientist, he's clinical, he's shut o...Show more »

He's somebody who's socially maladroit, he's obsessive, he's a scientist, he's clinical, he's shut off in so many ways. Kinsey as the center of a movie was a big question mark. Show less «

There's something very constraining about the labels gay and straight, as there is with any label us...Show more »

There's something very constraining about the labels gay and straight, as there is with any label used in identity politics. Show less «

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