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Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Robert Redford

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Robert Redford
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 18
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There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this is going to be the new this, this is going to be the new that, and it never is. The buzz just doesn't mean anything. I'm glad it doesn't. Because I think the festival shows that what succeeds is content.
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I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.
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Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.
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I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
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It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.
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Let's get something straight - I don't see myself as beautiful.
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The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.
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Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.
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What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.
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I'm not good at compromise.
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Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.
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I don't think you can ever return, really.
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As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.
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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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Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings a certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.
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You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.
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If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.
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I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
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When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.
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