Bill Condon Quotes

Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

All of us need to talk to someone who's interesting, intelligent, knows us well, and is on our side - and that's us. We're probably the most interesting person we know.

I read 'Love in the Time of Cholera' when I was 19, and I still think about the characters.

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story.

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

Some people compare Spike Spiegel to Dirty Harry, and they're both antiheroes. But Spike is an extension of myself.

The way I play is very unique.

Are we, as humans, gaining any insight on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context. So I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.

My way of directing is definitely unorthodox, definitely unconventional.

Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C.

I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is!

My path has been a little weird. I hope that it can inspire people.

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

When I work with players, whether their level is higher or lower, for me the most important thing is to know the person, what is in their heart.

Mine has been a pretty strange path.

I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals.

The female perspective is what I relate to and I understand it. I find it fascinating. I like to see women in challenging situations and see how they deal with it or don't deal with it.

The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship.

I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, you're trying to understand your subject in the same way that you try to understand one of your friends, and that effort at understanding is always very imperfect.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.