Robert Redford Quotes (73 Quotes)

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

All these years went by and nobody came up with any ideas that were anything but corny and kind of low grade so we just decided probably that wasn't going to happen.

Plus, I had never played that guy before, but I knew him intimately. You live in the West long enough, you meet those guys everywhere. Times have changed, and they don't like it a bit. Some go with the flow, some don't, and this guy doesn't.

This is a movie that might change a lot of perceptions about Jennifer, too, and the little girl who plays her daughter (Becca Gardner) is really terrific.

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.

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

It's a fallacy, of course. Good books make good movies all the time. David Fincher sharpened and expanded Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, ... A River Runs Through It.

Nixon had already resigned and the held opinion (in Hollywood) was 'No one cares. No one wants to hear about this. And I said, 'No, it's not about Nixon. It's about something else. It's about investigative journalism and hard work.

Well I would love to do a movie with Paul, but he can't remember lines. And that concerns me. You know, I'd hate to have to carry him in a movie, you know It'd be tough.

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.

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.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

It was never going to be The Paul and Bob Show. Instead, the idea of me presenting a friend who was also a colleague to speak about what inspired him -- his salad-dressing company, his racing interests, his camp for children -- those were areas that I thought were worthy of attention.

I would go into life for a year. Go on the bum, so to speak.

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.

I'm not sure you can have an event like that anymore. When we made the film, as you can see, we had dial phones, there was no Internet, there was no cable, there was no computerization of our culture, and so one event like this -- one scandal -- could command that kind of attention.

Weve poisoned the air, the water, and the land.In our passion to control nature,things have gone out of control.Progress from now on has to mean something different.Were running out of resources andwe are running out of time

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.

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

Sundance Institute shares with BAM a commitment to championing new ideas and diverse voices and to developing audiences for innovative film, theater and music.

Well I like to work, it's just being as selective as you are at the time, when there's maybe less product out there that's available.

Oh, thank heavens, ... I wondered when that day would come. It should have happened 35 years ago.

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

Why do they have to mess with things that were perfect the first time around

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

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

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.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, its a miracle I didnt become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

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.

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

The film is very, very different from the normal kind of films that are coming out right now.

The idea was to set Quiz Show at this time of naive energy, when television's audience tended to believe what it saw as what really was.

Who would've thought ... I didn't know anything about that film, and I don't think Morgan did, either, at the time. So that its coming afterwards - our film - I guess is just one of those circumstances that is beyond your control.

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

This is different in the sense that it allows an audience to reflect as it moves. It does have the kind of flow of a river flowing.

Accuracy was the big, big objective in making the film. We had to be accurate, otherwise we would fall under that perception that Hollywood was messing around with a very vital event.

I think, as a matter of fact, it might back up on him. It might make him appear to be narrow and afraid of something. I don't think it will really work. I don't think it will hurt the film. I hope it doesn't.

It was really a thriller. There was danger out there. The film was using the typewriter and the telephone and pencil on paper as weapons.

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.

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

There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago.

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 think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

This was made before 'Million Dollar Baby'... but this was put on the shelf for so long.

I think Paul and I are probably alike in that we're reluctant to talk about something that is not real yet, but we are talking about it.

In the early years, I was standing out on the corner trying to get people to come into the theater.

As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.

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