[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.

Dalton Trumbo was obsessed with justice.

[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.

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.

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

[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.