51 Quotes by David Strathairn

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.

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 burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.

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 think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.