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"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."
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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."

"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."

"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."

"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."

"Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already."
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"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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