I'd love to have Bob Fishman, our director, calling the camera shots as he did back then, selecting the pictures that you see in your living room. I'd love to once more experience the camaraderie of 50 men and women - our figure skating unit - united in an effort to show case such a special event.
It's my view that people like skating because it is a visual picture of freedom...it's like a soul set free. People have told me that they enjoyed it because the beauty calmed them; the skaters kind of looked like birds in flight. I think that kind of freedom is built into our spirit. And I think some great TV directors understand that, and have a keen eye how to capture that, and make people want to set aside time to sit down and watch skating.
Figure skating was all of it! Skating was an incredibly great sport which involved all the aspects and abilities that a great athlete needs to have-strength, timing, and all that stuff. It was an amazingly competitive sport as well. And it was theater! It was dance! And the "actors" took on roles as they skated! So for me, it became a home.... I became fascinated with it.