We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

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

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.

Hedda's Hopper attitude was 'once a Commie, always a Commie.'

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

I love Dr. Evil [from Austin Powers] as a walking, talking, narcissistic manifestation of everything screwed up about human existence - his desire to take over the world, and have the world reflect his own power lust.