“There are those people who say, ‘Why give money to art? It means nothing,’” Redford said. “I think it means a lot. And we’re here to try and prove how much it does mean. So we can only do what we can do, but we’re going to keep doing it.
News about the films was overshadowed for a bit by when actor
Tracy Morgan
was hospitalized after he collapsed following a Sundance event. Though there were reports that Morgan was inebriated, his rep denied it in a statement, saying that he had suffered from “a combination of exhaustion and altitude.” “Any reports of Tracy consuming alcohol are 100% false,” the statement said.
Celebrities took the opportunity to promote their latest projects:
Rashida Jones
talked about “Celeste and Jesse Forever,” her writing debut. She stars in the film, along with Andy Samberg, Emma Roberts and Elijah Wood.
Jones’ first screenwriting effort (with co-writer Will McCormack) emerged from “pain, lots of pain.”
“We’re both very deeply feeling people, and we love to talk about relationships and love and feelings,” she said. “We like to be as inappropriate as possible when things are grave and difficult, so I think it probably came from that place. It also came from, as an actress, reading so many scripts, you kind of intrinsically absorb storytelling script structure into your being without even knowing it, and we wanted to try and tell this story.”
Sean Penn
’s new movie, “This Must Be the Place,” casts him as a rock star who skips out on fame and exiles himself overseas — a sentiment that Penn understands. He told the Associated Press:
“I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that it’s an obscene disease of celebrity that’s taken over far too much of the life that we do live. I think it’s a disease,” Penn said. “I think that it’s diminished the quality of life. Not particularly for the people who are the focus of it, though that is clearly something that I’ve been compromised by. But for the culture at large, there is this kind of herd commitment. ... I think it’s just become cheap.”
Sigourney Weaver
revisits the paranormal in her new film “Red Lights,” where she plays a skeptic who debunks phony claims of the paranormal.
“I probably don’t believe in fairies and ghosts, but I certainly believe that people have souls,” Weaver, 62, said in an interview. “I think that, and that’s there’s more going on around us than we can explain in a rational way.”
Peter Jackson
, director of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, debuted “West of Memphis,” a documentary about a wrongful-conviction death row murder case that he made with his wife, Fran Walsh, and Amy Berg.
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