David Strathairn Quotes

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

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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