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" I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country. "
Robert Redford
Just
Country
Sustainability
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" I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me. "
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Kind
Place
" I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy. "
Robert Redford
Family
People
Time
" I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that. "
Robert Redford
Society
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Without
" 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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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
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Redford
Book
Walk
Parents
" I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in. "
Robert Redford
Journalism
Living
Negative
" 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? "
Robert Redford
Think
Possible
Need
" We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day. "
Robert Redford
First
Did
Festival
" I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts. "
Robert Redford
Work
Acting
Character
" When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do. "
Robert Redford
Sometimes
People
Start
" I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed. "
Robert Redford
Miss
Through
Little
" 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 don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.' "
Robert Redford
Me
Beautiful
Head
" 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. "
Robert Redford
Grateful
Think
American
" Money speaks in Utah. "
Robert Redford
Money
Speaks
Utah
" 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. "
Robert Redford
Places
Special
Culture
" 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. "
Robert Redford
Chance
Day
Deep
" In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on. "
Robert Redford
Hands
You
Move On
" For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom. "
Robert Redford
Step
Skiing
Race
" 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
" I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? "
Robert Redford
Think
Just
Environmental
" If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped. "
Robert Redford
Back
You
Talk
" 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. "
Robert Redford
Family
Success
Shadow
" I'm an impatient person, so it's hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take. "
Robert Redford
Take
Hard
Impatient
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I'd missed out on a lot of nature. "
Robert Redford
City
Growing Up
She