Robert Redford Quotes

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  One of the things that will always be inevitable is change… full of both vague uncertainty & brilliant promise.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Promise, Inevitable

• I don’t know what your childhood was like, but we didn’t have much money. We’d go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

  Robert Redford

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents, Book

• 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.

  Robert Redford

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in True

• Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there’s excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

  Robert Redford

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Person, Come, Together

• He’s meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules – a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness – the temptations of life.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Character, Kind, Darkness

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Over, Remember, Big

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Perfect, Become, Won

• Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Ideas, Voices

• 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

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  Tags in Political, Anywhere

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

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Film, Golf, Interested

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Believe, Die

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Yourself, New

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

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Today

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Live, Nothing

• 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?

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Environmental, Important

• I’m not a facelift person. I am what I am.

  Robert Redford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person

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

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

  Robert Redford

  Topics in Art, Politics, Soul

• 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

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Point, Story

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

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in past, Dangerous

Robert Redford (32)

Birth:	18th August, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Businessman, Director, Producer

About

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002.

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