Grant Heslov

…on the jazz songs by Diana Reeves.
It was in the script. Particularly in the scene when (Don) Hollenbeck kills himself. That was a song that George wanted in from the very beginning—it is one that his aunt (Rosemary Clooney) actually sang. And from that Diane Reeves actually sent us a tape of herselfmdash;she wanted to do it. We heard it and we were floored by it.

…on the close proximity between Fred Friendly and Edward J. Murrow during the broadcasts.
There are umpteen books on the subject and they all talk about that. They would record conversations and Fred often would write notes and stuff during the broadcast and flash them to him.

… on obtaining archival footage.
No, we knew the footage that we wanted. We had looked through a lot of footage. We looked through a year and a half of footage and then when we finally decided on what we wanted and went after it, we were able to get everything. Some of it wasn’t in the condition that we wanted and that took a lot of work. We found everything we wanted. The problem was that there was so much great footage that (the problem was deciding) what to actually use.