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

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, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

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

I'm a horrible public speaker.

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

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 the next stage. You don't really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.