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.
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.’
It’s hard to imagine in this day and age the accent in Dalton Trumbo speaking voice, the Mid Atlantic mixture of an English and American dialect, so flowery and oratorical that it almost sounds theatrical. It would be uncool today, no one would ever speak that way.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
![Jay Roach Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/for-bryan-cranston-to-go-back-in-time-and-become-t.jpg)
![Jay Roach Quote - [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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/lyndon-baines-johnson-technique-in-negotiation-wou.jpg)
![Jay Roach Quote - Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/dalton-trumbo-was-constantly-criticizing-the-membe.jpg)
![Jay Roach Quote - [Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/lyndon-baines-johnson-is-a-big-and-larger-than-lif.jpg)
![Jay Roach Quote - [ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/dalton-trumbo-always-said-he-fought-so-many-fights-683x1024.jpg)
![Jay Roach Quote - When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/when-something-so-unjust-as-the-black-list-happene-683x1024.jpg)
![Jay Roach Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/mini-me-was-the-pint-sized-clone-that-was-the-perp-683x1024.jpg)
