Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

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I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

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If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

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If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

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So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

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In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

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Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

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When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think.

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It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.

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There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

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