By Reid Cherner, USA TODAY

Not just anyone can shoot a documentary about Dennis Rodman.

You need a certain something and director Penny Marshall figures she has it.

Marshall, who has directedTom Hanks (“A League of Their Own” and “Big”), Robert DeNiro (“Awakenings”), Denzel Washington (“The Preacher’s Wife”) and Danny DeVito (“Renaissance Man”) thinks she’s equipped to take on one of the NBA’s most eccentric characters.

“I have a little radar to the insane,” Marshall told Marshall Heyman of the Wall Street Journal. “They seek me out. Dennis and his agent asked if I would do a documentary.”

Marshall is a huge NBA fan partly because it allows her to rid herself of her own demons.

“You can yell and scream at a game and no one’s taking you away in a white coat,” she said.

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