Robert Redford Quotes

We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.

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

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 yourself hadn't shown up yet.

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 do.

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

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

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

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

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 was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have faith in the pendulum swinging. Right now it's so far against the wall that it can't go any farther; it's gonna start to swing back. That's my optimism. One of the cures is gonna be getting the American people to fully wake up. All the American people, particularly young people, because they're gonna inherit this earth; they're gonna inherit what we're doing.

You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

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?

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.

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

I'm not good at compromise.

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

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

God, I just love baseball.

The way I deal with arthritis is to keep moving. As long as I can play hard tennis, as long as I can ski or ride a horse - all kinds of things can come your way. As long as you can, do it. People who retire die. My dad retired and died shortly after. Just keep moving.

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 black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.

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.

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

So what if my face is falling apart? I don't give a damn. Anyway, it gives me character. Everyone thinks that they can stay pretty forever but some come out of Beverly Hills surgeries looking scary to me.

In 1973, I was shown a graphic of how dependent the United States was on nonrenewable resources like oil and coal and that little was being done to change that. It seemed irrefutable that we needed a change in direction or we'd be paying a huge price down the road. That's when I made a commitment to become a political activist.

Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

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

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 the point when people quit. But some don't.

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.

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

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.

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

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

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.