Quotes by Robert Redford

About Robert Redford:

Charles Robert Redford Jr. is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and a founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Academy Awards: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur.
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I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you you...

Robert Redford

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

Robert Redford

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

Robert Redford

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

Robert Redford

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

Robert Redford

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

Robert Redford

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

Robert Redford

In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.

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

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I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly t...

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Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

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Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

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I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

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All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the...

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I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.

Robert Redford

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to...

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I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's ...

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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?

Robert Redford

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

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If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.

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Author Bio

  • NameRobert Redford
  • Descriptionactor and film director from the United States
  • AliasesCharles Robert Redford; Charles Robert Redford, Jr.
  • BornAugust 18, 1936
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Film Director; Actor; Film Producer; Businessperson
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Director; National Medal Of Arts; Directors Guild Of America Award