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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

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
There’s people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civilizations work catch on and others don’t.
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Civilization Ideas People
[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
For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and rhetoric in public in a melodic and flashy way, was a bit of a risk.
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Become Guy Ideas Large Rhetoric Risk
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
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
I’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
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Commentaries Commentary Enjoyed Recently
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
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
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 always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.
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Law People Political
[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
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Communist Himself Terrible
When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popular movement of artists and intellectuals at that time towards anti fascism, and an alliance with the union movement.
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Artist Connected Intellectual Party War
In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.
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Battle Fighting Use
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
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.
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Beautiful House Intimacy Men Play Version

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

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