I Always Was Fascinated By Neat Nicknames.

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 Battleground, Part Playground. We Clarify, Amplify And Glorify The Game With Our Footage, The Narration And That Music, And In The End Create An Inspirational Piece Of Footage.

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 Poisoning, And My Hotel Room Was Broken Into On The Day The Bears Played The Patriots In January 1986.

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 With An Idea Or Treatment - And Then You Need The Other Half Of The Freedom, And That's Freedom From - Somebody Saying, 'this Is Great. This Is How I Want You To Do It'.

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 Here, The Football Life. It's Been Perfect.

If You Can Show Something As Complicated As Two People Falling In Love With Just Music And Camera Angles, Well, Just Think About What You Can Do With Football.