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" The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it. "
Robert Redford
People
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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.' "
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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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" I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out. "
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" When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it. "
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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 haven't seen 'The Revenant,' but I'm sure it was great because it has a lot of talent involved. "
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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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" 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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" I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about. "
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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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" Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions. "
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" 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. "
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" Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. "
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" 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. "
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Hands
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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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" We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day. "
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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'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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 believe the American people care a lot about the environment. "
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