You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

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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...

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to...

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to...

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...

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense...

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense...

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...

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part...

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

The awkward moment when you're eating dinner at someone else's house and you don't like...

The awkward moment when you're eating dinner at someone else's house and you don't like...

I got baby food in my coffee maker.

I got baby food in my coffee maker.