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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.
Robert Redford
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Robert Redford
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 18
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I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a saying when we were trying to pay attention to the environment that people used this phrase NIMBY - not in my back yard. People were saying, ‘I don’t care, it is not in my back yard.’ But now it’s in everyone’s back yard.
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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.
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I think Hollywood... well, there is no Hollywood anymore so let's just call it the mainstream since the business is no longer Hollywood producing its own films and then distributing, they just distribute.
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Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.
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It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.
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Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.
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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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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.
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When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.
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Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
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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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Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.
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Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.
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So what if my face is falling apart? I don't give a damn. Anyway, it gives me character. Everyone thinks that they can stay pretty forever but some come out of Beverly Hills surgeries looking scary to me.
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I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
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I'm always moving forward and trying new things.
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I've always wanted to try new things because it's exciting and it keeps you active and alive.
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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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