It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok...

There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok...

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...

Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf...

Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf...

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...

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...

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

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

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can...

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can...

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

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

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 had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and...

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and...

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you...

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you...

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...

As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory...

As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory...

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or...

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or...

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as...

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as...