When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one. — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Dalton Trumbo actually was [ a hypocrite], because he liked his wealth, which was against the grain of being a Communist. I… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
People have an actual bias against there being some kind of popularity for political films, and when they get acknowledged, it helps… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment. Even modern wars are… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers,… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
To his credit John Wayne was open about it, he even portrayed a member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in a… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those… — Jay Roach Copy Share
But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have… — Jay Roach Copy Share
That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite. — Jay Roach Copy Share
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… — Jay Roach Copy Share
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… — Jay Roach Copy Share
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… — Jay Roach Copy Share
When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was… — Jay Roach Copy Share
We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour… — Jay Roach Copy Share
I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard… — Jay Roach Copy Share
[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely… — Jay Roach Copy Share
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… — Jay Roach Copy Share
I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and I was… — Jay Roach Copy Share
I like to shoot a lot of choices. I like a lot of stuff - and so I push to go faster, to shrink… — Jay Roach Copy Share
Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else. — Jay Roach Copy Share
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. — Jay Roach Copy Share
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