Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

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.

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

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

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

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