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You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an idea spread, memetics, you know which now people talk about memes.

Jay Roach

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Jay Roach
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 14
Cinematographer
Film Director
Film Producer
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Mathew Jay Roach
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Hedda's Hopper attitude was 'once a Commie, always a Commie.'
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The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.
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Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.
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I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.
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Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.
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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 was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and I was interested in it. I hadn't really gotten super serious about it and I'd done a lot of student politics in high school. I really think it would be interesting and fun and challenging to go into politics.
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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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I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.
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I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.
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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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I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.
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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.
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