Trumbo

"If we get one big movie we can get all the big movies, and then this whole rotten thing ends."

"Ever since I've known you, you talk like a radicle, but you live like a rich guy. I don't think you're willing to lose all of this just to do the right thing."
[to Dalton Trumbo]

Kirk Douglas: "I'm doing a new picture about one man trying to take on the whole world."
Dalton Trumbo: "What's the title?"
Kirk Douglas: "Spartacus."

"The blacklist is alive and well, and so is the black market."

"What we're about to do is the one thing everyone says we can't: 'we work'."

J. Parnell Thomas: "Mr. Trumbo, are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?"
Dalton Trumbo: "Am I accused of a crime?"

Ian McLellan Hunter: "Why movies? Why us?"
Dalton Trumbo: "We work in a business with cameras they invented, getting us to make them famous."

"Communism is not some faraway threat, it's most dangerous agents are here in Hollywood. They need to be identified as the enemies they are."