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I didn't think about politics until I came to Europe.

Robert Redford

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Robert Redford
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 18
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The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.
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We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.
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In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.
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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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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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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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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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The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.
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It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.
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It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
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I think quiet sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.
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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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As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.
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Between 18 and 19 years old [in the 1950s] I came to Paris. I studied art. And that experience really did change my life. I was living hand to mouth. I walked everywhere. I thought, this city is incredible but you really have to experience it by walking it.
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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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