[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.
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I’m developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything’s possible.
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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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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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In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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I’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
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