SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford once suggested, mainly as a joke, rescheduling the fledgling Utah event to the middle of winter.
The famed actor said that in 1981, he half-jokingly suggested the growing film festival take place in the middle of the winter in Utah rather than during the more amiable summer months, the Deseret Morning News reported Sunday.
"The Natural" star said he also suggested the festival also should be moved from Salt Lake City to the smaller venue of Park City, Utah.
"The idea was to make it as hard to get to as humanly possible," the actor said in a recent interview with the newspaper. "We wanted to make it the most inconvenient film festival ever. I'm only partly kidding there."
With the festival currently enjoying its 10-day run, Redford told the newspaper that this year's entries represent a more upbeat take on life when compared with previous offerings.
"I think that's an effect of living in today's society," he said. "You have to have a good sense of humor to live in this world."
