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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• David Strathairn:

  There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and

• David Strathairn:

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

• David Strathairn:

  You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the

• David Strathairn:

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

• David Strathairn:

  Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can l

• David Strathairn:

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

• David Strathairn:

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

• David Strathairn:

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

• David Strathairn:

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

• David Strathairn:

  It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it