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That’s why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite.

Jay Roach

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.
JAY ROACH

Drama Hook Smart
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.
JAY ROACH

Better Get Population Quality
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.
JAY ROACH

Conversation Helping People Political
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.
JAY ROACH

Shooting Thinking Weekend
It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he’s such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.
JAY ROACH

Generally Interesting Shy Trying
I’m developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything’s possible.
JAY ROACH

Dramatic Genre Pieces
[Lyndon Baines Johnson ] technique in negotiation would be that he’d lean into you and take away your personal space, it didn’t matter your party affiliation when he was trying to convince you of something.
JAY ROACH

Party Personal Space Trying
Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.
JAY ROACH

Loyal Opposites Party
In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.
JAY ROACH

Battle Fighting Use
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.
JAY ROACH

Course Shy Wayne Zealous
From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s – it was an atrocious system.
JAY ROACH

Country Perspective System Understanding
Sometimes you fall in love with some things and then you fall out of love with it.
JAY ROACH

Fall Some Sometimes Things
Hedda’s Hopper attitude was ‘once a Commie, always a Commie.’
JAY ROACH

Always Attitude Happen Once People
[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
JAY ROACH

Communist Himself Terrible
Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.
JAY ROACH

Enemy Sometimes Traction
For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and rhetoric in public in a melodic and flashy way, was a bit of a risk.
JAY ROACH

Become Guy Ideas Large Rhetoric Risk

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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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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