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Robert Redford

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

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

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."

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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

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"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

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"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

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"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

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"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end."
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"I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that."
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"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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"The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story."
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"We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day."
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"I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life."
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"I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book."
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Robert Redford
"Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent."
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"In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on."
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"Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it."
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