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.
If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.
When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.
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.