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I’m pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I’m not very zealous.

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.
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Better Get Population Quality
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
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
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
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
In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.
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Battle Fighting Use
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
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
[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
[ 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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Different Fighting Justice
I’m pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I’m not very zealous.
JAY ROACH

Political Views Zealous
When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.
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Black Unjust Way
[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
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Communist Himself Terrible
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
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
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

I’m pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I’m not very zealous.

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