If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.
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No one wants to watch anybody play baseball in a movie. What is interesting is what baseball means or sports in general means to those people doing it.
I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew nothing about film or acting or theater when I was young!
I love filming in New York. I love New York movies, too. I just like it when people can take New York and make it their own, because there are so many different New Yorks.
I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.