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

Jay Roach

[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.
JAY ROACH

Giving Guy Larger Life
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
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
Hedda’s Hopper attitude was ‘once a Commie, always a Commie.’
JAY ROACH

Always Attitude Happen Once People
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
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
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.
JAY ROACH

Album Decision Friendly Role Roles
I’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
JAY ROACH

Commentaries Commentary Enjoyed Recently
Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.
JAY ROACH

Loyal Opposites Party
I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just, you know, that’s it.
JAY ROACH

Courage Long Wish Woody
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
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.
JAY ROACH

Age Hard Imagine Sound Speaking Voice
This is a movie version of the play [All the Way]and when Bryan [Cranston] was on stage the bigness of the man was played to the back of the house. When we turned the cameras on that, it changed a bit with close-ups, but we got just as much power in that beautiful intimacy.
JAY ROACH

Beautiful House Intimacy Men Play Version
When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popular movement of artists and intellectuals at that time towards anti fascism, and an alliance with the union movement.
JAY ROACH

Artist Connected Intellectual Party War
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.
JAY ROACH

Law People Political

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