“I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I ...” — Bill Condon Quote

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.'

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

Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

From 15 years old starting to train to 17 when I went professional, all that could've gone away in just one fight.

I wish I had gone into industrial plumbing. That's a joke.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?