American - Actor | January 26, 1949 -
It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.
David Strathairn
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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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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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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. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.
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You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.
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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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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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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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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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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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