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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.

Jay Roach

To his credit John Wayne was open about it, he even portrayed a member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in a film called ‘Big Jim McClain.’
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Credit Film. Committee House
[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
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Communist Himself Terrible
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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Austin Evil Legacy
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
Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.
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Enemy Sometimes Traction
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
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
[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.
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Giving Guy Larger Life
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
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
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
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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Album Decision Friendly Role Roles
Hedda’s Hopper attitude was ‘once a Commie, always a Commie.’
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Always Attitude Happen Once People
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
[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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Party Personal Space Trying
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

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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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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