Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

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

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

That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.

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 remains, really, a group story.

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 get to where he wants to be.

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.