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Sometimes you fall in love with some things and then you fall out of love with it.

Jay Roach

One of the series of decisions that the great screenwriter John McNamara made was about who to depict. [Ronald] Reagan had a role in HUAC, he was a friendly witness, but never went over-the-top about it.
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Album Decision Friendly Role Roles
People have an actual bias against there being some kind of popularity for political films, and when they get acknowledged, it helps keep the conversation going.
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Conversation Helping People Political
That’s why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite.
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Communist Hypocrite Lines
Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil’s own legacy [in Austin Powers]. That concept earned the sequel.
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Austin Evil Legacy
I hope we’re all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there’s not only sort of a film geek audience, there’s also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.
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Better Get Population Quality
Sometimes you fall in love with some things and then you fall out of love with it.
JAY ROACH

Fall Some Sometimes Things
I don’t stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it’s a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it’s a drama.
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Drama Hook Smart
I’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
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Commentaries Commentary Enjoyed Recently
[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
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Communist Himself Terrible
I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.
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Law People Political
John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.
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Course Shy Wayne Zealous
[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.
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Giving Guy Larger Life
Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that’s really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.
JAY ROACH

Character Opportunity Thinking
It’s hard to imagine in this day and age the accent in Dalton Trumbo speaking voice, the Mid Atlantic mixture of an English and American dialect, so flowery and oratorical that it almost sounds theatrical. It would be uncool today, no one would ever speak that way.
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Age Hard Imagine Sound Speaking Voice
I’m pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I’m not very zealous.
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Political Views Zealous
When I’m shooting, really the audience I’m thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.
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Shooting Thinking Weekend

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