I'm a horrible public speaker.

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

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.

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

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.

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

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.