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I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in.
Jay Roach
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Jay Roach
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 14
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As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.
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Hedda's Hopper attitude was 'once a Commie, always a Commie.'
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I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.
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I am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side, but I consider myself more of an independent.
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