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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.
Steve Sabol Quotes: I've always believed in making
The Autumn Wind...
Steve Sabol Quotes: The Autumn Wind...
We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the 'cubistic' treatment of shooting football. It was the same thing Picasso did except we did it with a football play. It's taking a single image and looking at it from multiple perspectives.
Steve Sabol Quotes: We would get 20 different
The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.
Steve Sabol Quotes: The importance of an artist
How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'
Steve Sabol Quotes: How about that? You can
We see the game as art as much as sport. That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.
Steve Sabol Quotes: We see the game as
I was kicked out of school one year for streaking.
Steve Sabol Quotes: I was kicked out of
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 heavyweight champion of all time.
Steve Sabol Quotes: A perfect record does not
So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.
Steve Sabol Quotes: So they talk about heaven,
When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.
Steve Sabol Quotes: When we started NFL Films,
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 Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.
Steve Sabol Quotes: My Dad hated his job.
Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.
Steve Sabol Quotes: Football is such a great
The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.
Steve Sabol Quotes: The only other human endeavor
I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.
Steve Sabol Quotes: I always was fascinated by
I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
Steve Sabol Quotes: I think in the NFL
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 wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head ... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.
Steve Sabol Quotes: The autumn wind is a
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 in my heart forever.' Interestingly enough now, my dad's story is going to be in Canton and hopefully that will live forever, too.
Steve Sabol Quotes: My dad has a great
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.
Steve Sabol Quotes: Look at a football field.
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 to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies.
Steve Sabol Quotes: You know how I came
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 struggle.
Steve Sabol Quotes: To me, football is very
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.
Steve Sabol Quotes: If there's one thing I
Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.
Steve Sabol Quotes: Football is a sport of
I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.
Steve Sabol Quotes: I don't go to games
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.
Steve Sabol Quotes: If you can show something
When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?
Steve Sabol Quotes: When my father bid $5,000
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 and read Greek mythology.
Steve Sabol Quotes: NFL Films has had one
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.
Steve Sabol Quotes: I never thought of what
Life is great, football is better.
Steve Sabol Quotes: Life is great, football is
I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.
Steve Sabol Quotes: I blew the college boards,
Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud ... He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.
Steve Sabol Quotes: Lombardi, a certain magic still
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 ultimately want to become, I am going to run out of time before I reach the goal.
Steve Sabol Quotes: Live your life as a
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