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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.

Jay Roach

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Jay Roach
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 14
Cinematographer
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Mathew Jay Roach
Push
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Spending
Takes
Choices
Stuff
Shrink
Time
Shrinks
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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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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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I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.
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I just always look for stuff that has a character-driven thing.
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Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.
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Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.
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In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.
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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 think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.
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People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're willing to pointing at.
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We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.
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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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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 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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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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When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.
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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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I am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side, but I consider myself more of an independent.
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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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Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations of his antagonists, which is why we chose as we did.
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