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" 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. "

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Never

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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. "

" There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago. "

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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. "

" I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country. "

" Park City is developing itself, almost to death. "

" 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. "

" 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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Time

" I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am. "

" I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting. "

" As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage. "

" 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 not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. "

" 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. "

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

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

Robert Redford

Ambiguity

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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. "

" Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end. "

" 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. "

" For me, the Sundance Institute is just an extension of something I believed in, which is creating a mechanism for new voices to have a place to develop and be heard. "

" 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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Rock