Robert Redford
Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. is an American actor, director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, and philanthropist. Redford is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 August 1936
CitySanta Monica, CA
CountryUnited States of America
itself ok stopped stuff sundance
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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Neither one. It's hard for me to answer questions about 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.' And also, it's such a commercial phrasing. I don't know that we've seen ourselves in that perspective. You might say 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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Sundance is about storytelling. Storytellers can broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.
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Sundance Institute shares with BAM a commitment to championing new ideas and diverse voices and to developing audiences for innovative film, theater and music.
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As San Francisco holds a special place in my heart and is one of the nation's great centers of independent film, I am particularly excited to have found such a perfect home for Sundance in this city.
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We could create something that was criticized in the beginning as bound to fail because it wasn't commercial. And it has worked, and I'm happy with it.
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The stuff that came to us wasn't any good, ... (They said) can you do a sequel to 'The Sting?' No, leave that one alone ... don't try to milk it.
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We do not own this place, we are just passengers
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I vowed after that scene because there was a scene where things went wrong,
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Documentary films offer viewers a chance to absorb a great deal more information about a subject or issue.
changed films instead people
There's going to be a lot of films in there that people are just not going to like at all. That's part of the deal. I don't think it's changed. What has changed is now, instead of 350 people there, as it was the first year, there's 40,000, 45,000.
program
We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.
hard
That's too bad, I was working so hard,
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I think Paul and I are probably alike in that we're reluctant to talk about something that is not real yet, but we are talking about it.