David Strathairn

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

— David Strathairn

#culture #film #learn #literature #our

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

— David Strathairn

#could #i #murrow #think #weight

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

— David Strathairn

#anyone #edward #journalism #murrow #talking

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

— David Strathairn

#laid #legend #like #live #lots

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while. ↗

— David Strathairn

#crash #had #order #own #party

It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days. ↗

— David Strathairn

#be real #bell #days #film #give

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

— David Strathairn

#energy #expended #film #i #i think

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

— David Strathairn

#film #history #history books #libraries #now

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

#biographies #get #heard #him #his