When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

Sometimes you fall in love with some things and then you fall out of love with it.

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 am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side, but I consider myself more of an independent.

It seems like you can't actually have really bad hair or be bald and run for President of the United States.

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

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