Robert Redford Quotes

Other people have analysis. I have Utah.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.

You're never going to be the same person you are right now.

What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

Let's get something straight - I don't see myself as beautiful.

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

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

If you can do more, you should.

I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.

When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.

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.

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

If our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

God, I just love baseball.

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

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.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country.

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.

When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.

When things become insurmountable, some people quit, some keep going
for no other reason than to continue. Because that's all there is to do.

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?

I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

If you stay in Beverly Hills too long, you become a Mercedes.

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

I think a lot of people thought my career started with Butch Cassidy.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

I didn't want the attacks to affect me. I don't believe you should be led by fear.

I believe the American people care a lot about the environment.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.