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
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Documentary films offer viewers a chance to absorb a great deal more information about a subject or issue.
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I vowed after that scene because there was a scene where things went wrong,
change daughter girl might plays
This is a movie that might change a lot of perceptions about Jennifer, too, and the little girl who plays her daughter (Becca Gardner) is really terrific.
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This is different in the sense that it allows an audience to reflect as it moves. It does have the kind of flow of a river flowing.
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The business has changed, ... The business is what it is; it's a business. Therefore, it's hard to do the films like 'An Unfinished Life' that are more humanistic. I've always been selective, and usually like to do my own things. But as that narrows down, it becomes more and more difficult. But I love it. My love is performing and directing.
hard
That's too bad, I was working so hard,
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Well, I mean, I guess I support any individual's ability to speak on their own behalf.
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Well I like to work, it's just being as selective as you are at the time, when there's maybe less product out there that's available.
corner early people standing trying
In the early years, I was standing out on the corner trying to get people to come into the theater.
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Because it was always going to be this hard to stop.
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Because it's nonprofit, we're not obligated to put the criteria of commerciality on it. That was one of the reasons for starting it.
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I'm not sure you can have an event like that anymore. When we made the film, as you can see, we had dial phones, there was no Internet, there was no cable, there was no computerization of our culture, and so one event like this -- one scandal -- could command that kind of attention.
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I didn't think about that because I didn't have to. We were in Canada in a very remote place and we were working there as actors. She was just Jennifer.
action talk
Talk is not enough. It has to go to action and that is where we are right now.