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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. "
Robert Redford
End
Achieving
Money
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" What I would like to do is a thriller. I've been wanting to do that for a long time, but one that was not at all dependent on special effects. Just purely psychological, but will scare the hell out of you. That's what I would like to do. I have not found it yet. "
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" When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.' "
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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 certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box. "
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" I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out. "
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" Going to Santa Fe is like going to Greece. It's not that special compared to other areas. The pinon pines are no different than pinon pines elsewhere. But there has been culture there longer than in most places, and you feel it. "
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Culture
" Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity. "
Robert Redford
Part
Human
Storytelling
" 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. "
Robert Redford
Look
Always
You
" 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
Story
You
Point
" I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting. "
Robert Redford
You
Attitude
Life
" When you're making a movie, you don't think about the outcome. That's something I'm grateful for: whenever I go and do a new project, I never think about the outcome. It's always just about the work at hand. That's the fun part. The other part is always something I've had a struggle with, which is promoting the film. I know it's important. "
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Fun
Struggle
Grateful
" You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story. "
Robert Redford
Good
Control
Yourself
" For 'Jeremiah Johnson,' nobody wanted to make that film. I went to Sydney Pollack, and I said, 'Sydney, I live in the mountains, and I would like to make a film about a person that had to exist in the mountains and survive in the mountains.' "
Robert Redford
Nobody
Survive
Live
" I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film. "
Robert Redford
Baseball
Just
Golf
" I haven't seen 'The Revenant,' but I'm sure it was great because it has a lot of talent involved. "
Robert Redford
Great
Because
Involved
" Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door. "
Robert Redford
Place
Born
Door
" I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability. "
Robert Redford
Done
Everything
No Regrets
" When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'. "
Robert Redford
You
Thought
Actor
" Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it. "
Robert Redford
Watch
You
My Life
" Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it. "
Robert Redford
Ambiguity
Respond
Like
" 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. "
Robert Redford
Gift
Journey
Character
" I spent two summers working at Camp Curry and at Yosemite Lodge as a waiter. It gave me a chance to really be there every day - to hike up to Vernal Falls or Nevada Falls. It just took me really deep into it. Yosemite claimed me. "
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Chance
Day
Deep
" I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young. "
Robert Redford
Problem
Never
Face
" Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story. "
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Me
Place
Rock
" Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. "
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Good
Taste
Hell
" Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that. "
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Level
Same
Come
" I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that. "
Robert Redford
Good
Experience
Adventure
" 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. "
Robert Redford
Baseball
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Nature
" Celebrity is a big part of the American social system. I'm certainly grateful for what it's done for me, but I do think that celebrity is overdone in our society. I think it's got a dangerous side to it. "
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Think
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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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Know
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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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Country
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