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While being honored on Sunday night at the Burbank International Film Festival, Quentin Tarantino took time to honor late star Robert Redford (via The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>), who passed away at 89 on Sept. 16.<\/p>\n Tarantino broke out thanks to Redford\u2019s Sundance Film Festival, which in its 13th year presented the director\u2019s debut feature, Reservoir Dogs (1992). The festival, which likewise launched the careers of Steven Soderbergh and Paul Thomas Anderson, reinvigorated the American independent film movement and dominated the industry in the 1990s. When the conversation turned to his humble beginnings, Tarantino mused that the landscape of modern cinema would\u2019ve been much different without Redford\u2019s festival.<\/p>\n \u201cNone of us independent filmmakers would be where we are without the Sundance Film Institute,\u201d Tarantino said, referring to the lab where fledgling filmmakers would be mentored by veterans of the game. \u201cI\u2019m dealing with Terry Gilliam (Brazil), I\u2019m dealing with Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff, I\u2019m dealing with Stanley Donen (Singin\u2019 in the Rain). Stanley Donen, Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff and Terry Gilliam are in my editing room as I\u2019m editing my first scene on videocassette!\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of money and a lot of people are dedicating their time just for us, just to give us the chance [to make an independent film],\u201d the Oscar-winner recalled thinking at the time. \u201cThey were saying \u2018You\u2019re young, and we might get on your case, we might bust your balls, but we see you.\u2019 I just couldn\u2019t believe something could be that artistically philanthropic.<\/p>\n \u201cSo thank you very much, Mr. Redford,\u201d Tarantino said to cheers from the crowd.<\/p>\n Tarantino\u2019s recent remarks are somewhat at odds with those he\u2019s made in the past on the subject of Sundance and Reservoir Dogs, which was passed over for awards at the festival due to its extreme violent content. \u201cIt was the thing about Sundance that I hated most at that time,\u201d Tarantino told Peter Biskind in the author\u2019s 2004 book Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. \u201cThey were liberal in the worst sense. It wouldn\u2019t have been such a bad thing if I hadn\u2019t been told by everyone that I was gonna win\u2014something. But it hurt my feelings. I was sad, I was mad. When [the ceremony] was over, I did a slightly less drastic version of storming out. \u2018F–k all you!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n According to former Sundance programmer Cathy Schulman, Tarantino was “pissed off” about the snub and refused to participate in festival activities for decades to come. “We were always trying to involve him in everything,” Schulman told Biskind. “We tried to get him on the jury. We tried to get him to work in the labs as a resource person. He was never accessible to us.”<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Men’s Journal<\/a> on Sep 29, 2025, where it first appeared in the Entertainment<\/a> section. 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Tarantino Previously Slammed the Festival<\/h2>\n