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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.

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.

I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt.

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.

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 wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.

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

If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

I'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.

I'm definitely an elbow-room guy.

Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.

We need to be discussing issues specifically to help the American people. And that would not include illegal aliens.

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.

I've always been a macroeconomist. That's what I teach. And I guess that's what I've been concerned with ever since I've been very young.

Tyranny is to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

Content is the atomic particle of all digital marketing.

L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.

I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.