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" I think a lot of people thought my career started with Butch Cassidy. "

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" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I'm an impatient person, so it's hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take. "

" Be careful of success; it has a dark side. "

" Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It felt to me like America was always wanting to resolve things too quickly, without thinking through what the costs and consequences would be and how that affects an individual living in that world. Then as I grew up and went about my life, I think I just got more and more interested in that gray area where things are not so easily quantified. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'. "

" When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time. "

" I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people. "

" 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. "

" I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed. "

" 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. "

" Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. "

" If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated. "

" I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on? "

" Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it. "

" I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.' "

" Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. "

" Money speaks in Utah. "

" I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about. "

" I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't. "

" It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter. "

" I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous. "

" 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. "

" I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists. "

" 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. "