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.

Quote by Robert Redford

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I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set...

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set...

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have...

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have...

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch...

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch...

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if...

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if...

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology...

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology...

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a...

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a...

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against...

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against...

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

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

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd...

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd...

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like...

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like...

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here...

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here...

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first...

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first...

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that...

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that...

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind...

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind...

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out...

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out...

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that...

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that...

Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever...

Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever...

I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when...

I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when...

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Support is correctly valued when it is for only the right ideas than big fame...

Support is correctly valued when it is for only the right ideas than big fame...