Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

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.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

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.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.