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“I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.”

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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…

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But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have…

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That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was…

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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…

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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…

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[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…

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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…

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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…

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