When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.

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

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.

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.

You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an idea spread, memetics, you know which now people talk about memes.

I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.

I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.