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

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.

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.

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

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.

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.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.