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" I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life. "
Robert Redford
Life
Today
People
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" Money speaks in Utah. "
Robert Redford
Money
Speaks
Utah
" Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. "
Robert Redford
Business
Tough
You
" 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
" We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day. "
Robert Redford
First
Did
Festival
" People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person. "
Robert Redford
Hollywood
My Own
People
" I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet. "
Robert Redford
Yourself
Art
Good
" 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
" Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. "
Robert Redford
Because
Know
Political
" I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts. "
Robert Redford
Work
Acting
Character
" I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about. "
Robert Redford
Always
People
Story
" I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. "
Robert Redford
About
Film
Golf
" The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever. "
Robert Redford
Internet
Focus
Think
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Redford
Reality
Think
Sometimes
" Park City is developing itself, almost to death. "
Robert Redford
Itself
Park
Almost
" 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
" 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
" Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity. "
Robert Redford
Part
Human
Storytelling
" Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. "
Robert Redford
Good
Taste
Hell
" I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing. "
Robert Redford
Tell
Drawing
Paint
" What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story. "
Robert Redford
Story
Side
Life
" For me, the Sundance Institute is just an extension of something I believed in, which is creating a mechanism for new voices to have a place to develop and be heard. "
Robert Redford
Place
Heard
Just
" The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story. "
Robert Redford
Big
Am
Technology
" A few years after that first visit, I applied for a job in Yosemite. "
Robert Redford
Visit
Yosemite
Few
" 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.' "
Robert Redford
New
You
Wisdom
" Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off. "
Robert Redford
End
Mind
Money
" When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time. "
Robert Redford
Wish
Time
Me
" 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. "
Robert Redford
Sad
Think
Sadness
" The Right has such antiquated ideas - if they took charge, I think they'd want to close the parks, open the land up for development. It's an ongoing battle to keep the parks strong. "
Robert Redford
Battle
Land
Strong
" I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists. "
Robert Redford
Independent
I Think
Think