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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.’

Jay Roach

[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.
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Communist Himself Terrible
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
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
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
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’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
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Commentaries Commentary Enjoyed Recently
[ 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
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
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
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’m developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything’s possible.
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Dramatic Genre Pieces
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
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
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
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
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

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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