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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We are pleased to bring to New York the spirit of Sundance. Our collaboration with BAM is the keystone of our 25th Anniversary celebration plans during the year.
access wonder
When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.
drawn people
I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.
entertainment needs public taking
The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever.
attention paying people rather sexiest top
I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.
work
I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.
backs business failures mean meaner strength survive tough year
Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
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It felt to me like America was always wanting to resolve things too quickly, without thinking through what the costs and consequences would be and how that affects an individual living in that world. Then as I grew up and went about my life, I think I just got more and more interested in that gray area where things are not so easily quantified.
scene vowed
I vowed after that scene because there was a scene where things went wrong,
danger paper pencil telephone typewriter using
It was really a thriller. There was danger out there. The film was using the typewriter and the telephone and pencil on paper as weapons.
wonderful
Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.
criteria obligated reasons starting
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.
compromise
I'm not good at compromise.
moving-forward moving trying
I'm always moving forward and trying new things.