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 anglecameracomplicate Change image and share on social
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 dramaturgicalfootballinterest Change image and share on social
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 championfightgreat Change image and share on social
All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with. Steve Sabol approachbusinessbutton share on social
Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull. Steve Sabol dullfootballgame Change image and share on social
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 autumnbeatbluster share on social
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.' Steve Sabol artistfreedomgreat share on social
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 anglecallcubistic share on social
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 backcapturecontinuous Change image and share on social
How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.' Steve Sabol deepfilmhear Change image and share on social