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

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both..

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 ther….

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..

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries..

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

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 wher….

I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it was….

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds..

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..

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