We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
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I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.
I'm a huge sports fan. I love the psychology of athletes and the culture of athletics. I'm constantly drawn to those kinds of stories.
I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.
In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport.
I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out of you.
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore someone's culture, you can explore their experience, you can explore an issue through human beings who are going through it.
We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.
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