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" Money speaks in Utah. "
Robert Redford
Money
Speaks
Utah
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I haven't seen 'The Revenant,' but I'm sure it was great because it has a lot of talent involved. "
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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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" Be careful of success; it has a dark side. "
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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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" A few years after that first visit, I applied for a job in Yosemite. "
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" I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. "
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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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" It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. "
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" Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I believe the American people care a lot about the environment. "
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" I didn't know the technical language of filmmaking, so I said, 'OK, I'm going to do my own storyboard,' because I had to explain to the crew and the technical people what I wanted. "
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" The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story? "
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" I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.' "
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Beautiful
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" I think a lot of people thought my career started with Butch Cassidy. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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