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 was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.

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

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

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

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

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

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.