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

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

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.

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

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

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.

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