I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.

I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just, you know, that's it.

Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

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 public in a melodic and flashy way, was a bit of a risk.

From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system.

The first thing we noticed was how flamboyant [Dalton] Trumbo was in real life.

Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.