David Strathairn Quotes

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• When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.
• Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
• It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
• If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.
• Decisions made in real time are never perfect.
• So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.
• Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
• 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…
• 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…
• I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.
• If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
• In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.
• I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It…
• Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.
• 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…
• It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life.…
• In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I…
• I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did…
• I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues…
• 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…

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