“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 respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.” WayArtWantedFilmArtistGamesSportsPlayerSellsCoachesNflThe Love Of The Game Author:Steve Sabol
“Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.” FilmLyingLiteratureSportsConsciousnessTelevisionAdventureSurfaceHeroicYearningExaminationBeneath The SurfaceVicariousPopular Film Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.” MenYearsLooksHas BeensFilmSportsInterestAnswersQualityWatchesStyleMovementEssentialsMusicianEmptyUnionsAthleteHeavyTennisDullRebellionSovietMetalsDominantSoviet UnionAbsentPublic InterestHeavy MetalFacelessFinesse Author:David Foster Wallace
“In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.” FilmNightSportsBlackSpaceCompanyMinutesNew YorkSpeechBlindGreenSevenAthleteTrackBostonMotorFlewMiamiBowlingBuffaloSeven DaysRochesterFord Motor Author:Jesse Owens
“We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.” AgeChristianFilmJesusSportsChristReligiousJesus ChristAvant Garde Author:Pat Buchanan
“I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.” WorldMadeStillsBookFilmSportsDecisionBehindsCollegeAmountMusic IsExecutivesUpbringingFilm And Music Author:Nick Offerman
“I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.” ThinkingChildrenTwoPlayShowsSchoolFilmHateThreeSportsMiddleStageSonDependsPressureEntertainmentPerformingKicksNervesAppearingSchool PlaysThree Sons Author:Piers Morgan
“My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.” WritingDreamFilmSportsCan DoEmotionalProjectsYou Can Do ItBeing Me Author:Jeff Cardoni
“People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.” PeopleFilmSportsFamiliarCrewDocumentariesAthensWheelchairsFilm Crew Author:Mark Zupan
“People's instinct when they hear someone is madly obsessed with Star Wars or Harry Potter or something like that, they think that it's odd and not as cool as being a massive sports fan or film nerd. But I think it's amazing and something that should be celebrated and definitely not looked down on or misunderstood.” PeopleThinkingShouldWarFilmStarsSportsFansInstinctOddObsessedMassiveHarry PotterNerdMisunderstoodPottersSports Fan Author:Tom Felton
“When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.” WayWantWritingSaidStoriesWantedFilmGamesSportsClearSawsViolenceFootballDramaOne DaySolutionsCamerasScriptsFinishedViolentHeySiblingRivalrySibling RivalrySports MovieFunny GameViolent Films Author:Carlos Cuaron