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• Description : TYSON Directors Statement Mike Tyso...(more)n, a figure of staggering complexity and iconic impact on the world stage, has been a friend since 1985 when he came by the set of THE PICK UP ARTIST to meet Robert Downey. We spent hours talking-- about love, madness, crime, sports, sex, boxing, money, and death. I was left with a certainty that I would eventually want to use him in some future film. Fourteen years later, I offered Tyson a role in BLACK AND WHITE which involved resisting successive, aggressive sexual overtures by both Downey and Brooke Shields, and, in another scene, the providing of advice to a Wu Tang Clan gangster on murder and its possible consequences of a life in prison. Three years later, I used Tyson again in a street scene with Neve Campbell and me in WHEN WILL I BE LOVED. For years I have been looking for a project that would allow for a new form of presentation suggested by current radically shifting and radically impatient responses to modern life and media. I wanted to make a movie that would serve the thematic complexity and multiple layers of character and behavior by splitting the screen into separate images moving in shape, size, and rhythm, complicated by overlapping sources of dialogue and music. A full portrait film with Mike Tyson as its subject not only allowed for the exercise of that technique but actually demanded it. I approached Larry McConkey, the world master of steadicam operators and asked him to try a two-camera (both the Panasonic Genesis and Vericam) Hi-Def shoot of rapid intensity. Tyson was free, willing, and--after years of vaguely planning such an enterprise---eager. The week passed with the expected, unexpected twists from both Tyson and McConkey. I then set out on an eight month editorial journey into the unknown with Aaron Yanes, a relative newcomer to editing. Together -- and then later with Skip Lievsay and Byron Wilson, the best sound engineering team in the universe, as well as the input of producer Damon Bingham, we all forged something very close to what I had been dreaming of. It will be a blessing indeed if others share the excitement as well. James Toback The 4-year-old daughter of boxing legend Mike Tyson was in "extremely critical condition" after she was injured in a treadmill accident at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, police said. Exodus Tyson was found by her 7-year-old brother on a treadmill "with her neck on ... a cable" attached to the machine, police said in a statement. The mother "took her daughter off the cable" and called authorities, according to police. Former world heavyweight champion Tyson traveled from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Phoenix where his daughter was on life support in critical condition on Monday, police said. VideoNeighbors react to news » The family issued a statement through New York city public relations firm 42West. "The Tyson family would like to extend our deepest and most heartfelt thanks for all your prayers and support, and we ask that we be allowed our privacy at this difficult time," it read. The 42-year-old Brooklyn-born Tyson became the youngest world heavyweight champion in history when he lifted the World Boxing Council title aged 20. Tyson also won the WBA and IBF versions of the crown during a career that was littered with controversy including disqualification for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a 1997 title rematch. He retired from the sport in 2005, but was back in the news this month with the U.S. release of the film "Tyson," a documentary that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year. (less)