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When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.

Jay Roach

Once you’re a public figure, there’s a certain amount of privacy you do give up.
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Figures Giving Privacy Up
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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Desire Evil Lust Talking
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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Generally Interesting Shy Trying
Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.
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Enemy Sometimes Traction
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
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
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
When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.
JAY ROACH

Black Unjust Way
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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Consolation Cutting Dvds Loose The Couple
Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.
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Loyal Opposites Party
I’m developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything’s possible.
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Dramatic Genre Pieces
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
But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won’t show something that’s embarrassing.
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Appreciate Approval Protect Rights
[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
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Communist Himself Terrible
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
I’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
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