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.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

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.

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

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

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

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