John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.

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

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.

In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.

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

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.