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

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

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

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

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.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.