I Agree With Robert Redford!

Anyway, Robert was asked by some intrepid reporter whether he thought there were too many film festivals these days. Here’s what he had to say:

Yeah. That’s a tricky thing for me to be saying — it could look pretty selfish — but I do think there’s such a thing as too much of certain things. Look, I think there’s now festivals for neighborhoods. If that satisfies people and they continue to grow and everyone’s happy, so be it. My gut says there’s such a thing as too much information, but I don’t know.

When we started there was very little out there; now, there’s a lot. My feeling is when the day comes when we’re no longer providing the mission we started with — not creating something new for audiences, not creating opportunities for new artists to have a place to come and develop — then we shouldn’t be here, and we won’t. As long as we continue to create new advantages, we will continue, but not just to be continuing.

The Sundance Film Festival — which was founded by Redford and was one of the first of its kind — kicks off on Thursday for its 25th year.

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