Daily Inspiration Quote by Bill Condon

"I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama"

Bill Condon, Director

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Condon is drawing a bright line between two kinds of fantasy: the self-serious mythos that tries to feel inevitable ("Batman") and the knowingly heightened romance that succeeds only if you let it be extra ("Twilight"). The point isn’t that one is better; it’s that each has a different contract with the audience. Batman invites you to test the plausibility of its rules. Twilight dares you to surrender to emotion first and logic later.

His key move is defensive but savvy: he refuses the alibi of irony. In the post-snark 2000s, blockbuster filmmakers often insulated themselves from ridicule by winking at the material, telegraphing that they’re in on the joke. Condon insists that approach would be a betrayal. “Not making fun of it” is code for not flattening it into camp. He’s arguing for a straight-faced style that treats adolescent desire, panic, and longing as real stakes even when the world-building is flagrantly unreal.

“Reveling in the melodrama” is also a cultural reframe. Twilight was routinely mocked as hysterical, feminine, and therefore disposable. By naming it as melodrama - a genre with its own rigor, history, and pleasures - Condon legitimizes what critics dismissed: big feelings, moral binaries, romantic obsession, bodily transformation. He’s telling collaborators (and skeptical viewers) that the job is to calibrate tone, not apologize for it.

Context matters: as a director inheriting a massively policed franchise, Condon is signaling loyalty to the fan experience while justifying aesthetic choices that might look excessive to outsiders. The subtext is pragmatic: don’t chase “cool”; chase coherence inside the fever dream.

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Bill Condon

Bill Condon (born October 22, 1955) is a Director from USA.

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