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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

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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Country Long People Track
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
Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.
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Enemy Sometimes Traction
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
I’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
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Commentaries Commentary Enjoyed Recently
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
[ 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
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
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 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.
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Courage Long Wish Woody
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
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
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
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

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

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