I’m developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything’s possible.
JAY ROACHPeople 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.
More Jay Roach Quotes
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When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.
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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.
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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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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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I’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
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There’s people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civilizations work catch on and others don’t.
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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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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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Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.
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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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I love Dr. Evil [from Austin Powers] as a walking, talking, narcissistic manifestation of everything screwed up about human existence – his desire to take over the world, and have the world reflect his own power lust.
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Once you’re a public figure, there’s a certain amount of privacy you do give up.
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Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.
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I’m pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I’m not very zealous.
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I really enjoy the consolation when I’m having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying ‘Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.’ There’s a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn’t fit them into the film that are on there.
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