Occupation: Filmmaker Birth: October 2, 1942 Death: September 18, 2012
There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food ….
NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back ….
Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull..
I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He wo….
A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavywe….
I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up w….
But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down h….
The autumn wind is a Raider, / Pillaging just for fun; / He'll knock you around, / And upside down, / And laugh when he's conquered and won..
I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respec….
You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road t….
The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he we….
My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Mar….
Life is good. Football is better..
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part bat….
I've always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with your heart..
Live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. I realized today that if I stay on a path of gradual evolution into the man I ult….
My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’.
My dad has a great expression. He always says, 'Tell me a fact and I'll learn, tell me the truth and I believe, but tell me a story, and it will live….
To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the stru….
Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films..
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned y….