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We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.
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Robert Redford
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 18
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You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.
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Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
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The meter is ticking [particularly in the face of climate change], so you've got to get to as much as you can as fast as you can. I grew up with 'This Land Is Our Land,' and public land doesn't belong to that administration or this one. We want our kids to grow up with real natural places, not just photos of them.
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Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
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The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.
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Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.
Robert Redford
When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, Shame on you, or You should be ashamed of yourself, you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.
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I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of progress. I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.
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The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.
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He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
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I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.
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I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.
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It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.
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I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.
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I don't think you can ever return, really.
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People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.
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I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.
Robert Redford
Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.
Robert Redford
When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.
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Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.
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