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I’m developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything’s possible.

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.
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Conversation Helping People Political
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
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.
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Character Opportunity Thinking
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
[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
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Communist Himself Terrible
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
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
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
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
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
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
I’m developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything’s possible.
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Dramatic Genre Pieces
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
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
I’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
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