51 Quotes by David Strathairn

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.

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

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

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.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

He has the biggest part in the movie. we wouldn't be here without him.

There is always something ticking with Murrow. He was described as a prince of doom, a man carrying a crown of thorns. I tried to show what was going on in his head.

He used his power to get it made with absolutely no compromises or concessions. He had hurt his back just before we started, and he was in terrible pain through much of the filming. It was a heroic effort on his part.