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…

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I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest...

I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest...

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you...

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you...

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

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

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.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should...

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should...

In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are,...

In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are,...

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

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

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded -...

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded -...

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene...

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene...

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes...

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes...

I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look...

I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look...

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture,...

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture,...

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

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

It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to...

It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to...

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his...

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his...