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…

- David Strathairn

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

- David Strathairn

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

- David Strathairn

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…

- David Strathairn

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

- David Strathairn

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

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

- 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

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

- David Strathairn