Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
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.