There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful..

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, o….

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids..

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana..

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present..

I'm a horrible public speaker..

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church..

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion..

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me..

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd..

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged..

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 ge….

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids..

The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alon….

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 approac….

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 ….

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 w….

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything..

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 rem….

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….

For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn't live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he's not on the stage he's on a bus getting to th….