Robert Redford Quotes

The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.

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

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

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

In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

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

Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.

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.

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

You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.

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?

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

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

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

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

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

I've always liked speed. I own a car that I shouldn't be talking about because I'm an environmentalist, but the 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 RS is the finest sports car ever made.

When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'