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.

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.

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.

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.