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" People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person. "

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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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" Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think, since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids. "

" Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I believe the American people care a lot about the environment. "

" I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving. "

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" I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies. "

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" 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. "