Jay Roach Quotes

• You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people’s interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

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• 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.

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• 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.

   

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• We collaborate on everything. I’m involved in the writing and pre-production. There’s a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.

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• The success of the second ‘Austin Powers’ caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

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• The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of – knowing that they’ll make it on the DVD.

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• The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we’re just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn’t even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

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• My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview – how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

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• It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he’s such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.

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• I’ve recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

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• I’m not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director’s cut of these things. So far they’ve turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

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• I’m developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything’s possible.

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• I think we’ll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.

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• I think sequels should be earned and we won’t do it unless the script is better than the first one.

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• I really enjoy the consolation when I’m having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying ‘Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.’ There’s a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn’t fit them into the film that are on there.

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• I love making people laugh. It’s an addiction and it’s probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there’s no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

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• I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it’s a really great experience.

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Jay Roach (27)

Birth:	14th June, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Producer

About

Matthew Jay Roach was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He is an American film director and producer. He received a BA degree in economics from Stanford University in 1980 and later earned an M.F.A. in film production from the University of Southern California in 1986. He directed several films include: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Mystery, Alaska, Meet the Parents, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Meet the Fockers, Recount, Dinner for Schmucks, Game Change, The Campaign, Trumbo, and All the Way(TV film). He produced several films include: Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Borat, Charlie Bartlett, Brüno, Dinner for Schmucks, Little Fockers, Game Change, The Campaign, Sisters, All the Way(executive producer), and The Silent Man.

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