My Idea Of A Beach

Our Relationships, Relationships Between Adults, How All Those Pieces Fit Together - That's The Most Complicated Thing We All Face.

I Wanted To Make Connections Between Whale's Past And Present.

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.

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 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.