Michael Jordan: Bazin said the power of cinema is not in montage, but in the long take. And that was all I needed. You don& #39;t think the cut is what makes cinema "cinema"? Ok, fine. I& #39;ll make a documentary proving you wrong. That& #39;s when I told Jason to crosscut between timelines.
Jason Hehir, The Last Dance Director: I told Michael we& #39;re not making a Christopher Nolan film here. He responded "we& #39;re making an Air Jordan film."

Michael Jordan: I& #39;m not saying the director of Dunkirk isn& #39;t a threat. But saying he& #39;s better than me? Yeah, I felt offended.
Jason Hehir: Scottie was upset we used rap music during the basketball montages.

Scottie Pippen: I wanted to use EDM b/c my kids like it.

Michael Jordan: Scottie was wrong. And he knows he was wrong. EDM is trash.
Jason Hehir: Rodman agreed to speak on 1 condition: Carmen Electra had to speak too.

Dennis Rodman: She knew me more than I knew me.

Michael Jordan: I didn& #39;t want Carmen. She wasn& #39;t a Bull. But Phil convinced me.

Phil Jackson: The triangle functioned only because of Carmen.
Writer: Krause said they were making TV, not film.

Michael Jordan: I said "like Twin Peaks: The Return, Last Dance is a film b/c 1 director tells a whole story over ten hours with footage shot years before knowing the episode it& #39;d air in." He replied "that& #39;s not a film either."
Jason Hehir: When we finished, I began comparing the doc to other ESPN ones. Michael began comparing it to Soviet Montage films.

Michael Jordan: I respect what Bill Simmons created. What Ezra Edelman achieved with OJ. But I was aiming for my hero: Eisenstein. I surpassed him.
Interviewer: Here is what Ken Burns had to say about your doc

*Hands Jordan a tablet*
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