For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
This is a movie version of the play [All the Way]and when Bryan [Cranston] was on stage the bigness of the man… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine in this day and age the accent in Dalton Trumbo speaking voice, the Mid Atlantic mixture of an… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
It was a way to try and shut down what the unions were negotiating for, like better hours and pay. [Dalton] Trumbo… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way. — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The… — 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
When we had ideas that earned there way in [Austin Powers], it began to get okay. The hook for me was 'Mini-Me.'… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image