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.
JAY ROACHDalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.
More Jay Roach Quotes
-
-
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 -
Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that’s really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.
JAY ROACH -
[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
JAY ROACH -
I’m developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything’s possible.
JAY ROACH -
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.
JAY ROACH -
Hedda’s Hopper attitude was ‘once a Commie, always a Commie.’
JAY ROACH -
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 -
Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.
JAY ROACH -
I’m pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I’m not very zealous.
JAY ROACH -
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.
JAY ROACH -
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.
JAY ROACH -
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.
JAY ROACH -
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.
JAY ROACH -
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.
JAY ROACH -
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.
JAY ROACH
![Jay Roach Quote - Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/dalton-trumbo-was-constantly-criticizing-the-membe.jpg)
![Jay Roach Quote - Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/grey-dalton-trumbo-was-constantly-criticizing.jpg)
![Jay Roach Quote - Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/blue-dalton-trumbo-was-constantly-criticizing.jpg)
![Jay Roach Quote - Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/red-dalton-trumbo-was-constantly-criticizing.jpg)
![Jay Roach Quote - Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/brown-dalton-trumbo-was-constantly-criticizing.jpg)
![Jay Roach Quote - Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/white-dalton-trumbo-was-constantly-criticizing.jpg)

