David Strathairn Quotes


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. - David Strathairn


You kind of get pigeonholed for various reasons. One thing I didn't do in this movie (that) I regret not doing was taking a pratfall. I think, as great as Edward R. Murrow was, in terms of cinema, you've gotta honor those great clowns. - David Strathairn


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. - David Strathairn


When I first saw a rough cut of it, I knew it was going to have some kind of bells and whistles. - David Strathairn


We weren't concerned with making an impersonation. - David Strathairn


We were actually making news. He told each of us to cover a different subject and then find something that's germane and pitch it. It was improvisational acting and it was great. - David Strathairn


This movie isn't out to railroad you toward any particular bias, and that's where I think its power comes from. - David Strathairn


There is always something ticking with Murrow. He was described as a prince of doom, a man carrying a crown of thorns. I tried to show what was going on in his head. - David Strathairn


There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information. - David Strathairn


The movie is a collaboration of idea and entertainment. - David Strathairn


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