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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.
Jay Roach
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Jay Roach
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 14
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Albuquerque
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Mathew Jay Roach
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I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.
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Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.
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It was about the compelling need to make countries get along to prevent war, in contrast with the totally petty and selfish bullshit that drives the individuals who are supposedly in charge of these countries. It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment.
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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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[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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I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.
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John Wayne was just a very conservative guy, who had not served in World War II, and he was defensive about that - he almost overcompensated his anti-Communism because of that reason.
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[ 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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When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.
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I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.
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I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
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It seems like you can't actually have really bad hair or be bald and run for President of the United States.
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Dalton Trumbo actually was [ a hypocrite], because he liked his wealth, which was against the grain of being a Communist. I put title cards at the head of the film that explains the context.
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