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The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we’re just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.

Jay Roach

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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Course Shy Wayne Zealous
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.
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Shooting Thinking Weekend
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 like to shoot a lot of choices. I like a lot of stuff – and so I push to go faster, to shrink the time between the takes so that the takes are what you’re spending all your time on.
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Choices Spending Stuff
Hedda’s Hopper attitude was ‘once a Commie, always a Commie.’
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Always Attitude Happen Once People
[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
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Communist Himself Terrible
Sometimes you fall in love with some things and then you fall out of love with it.
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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.
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Age Hard Imagine Sound Speaking Voice
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
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
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
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.
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Drama Hook Smart
I think sequels should be earned and we won’t do it unless the script is better than the first one.
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Firsts Scripts Thinking
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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Country Perspective System Understanding
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’m developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything’s possible.
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Dramatic Genre Pieces

The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we’re just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.

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The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we’re just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.

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