When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popular movement of artists and intellectuals at that time towards anti fascism, and an alliance with the union movement.

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.

Hedda's Hopper attitude was 'once a Commie, always a Commie.'

People have an actual bias against there being some kind of popularity for political films, and when they get acknowledged, it helps keep the conversation going.

There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civilizations work catch on and others don't.

I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.