Robert Redford Quotes

• 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

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Find, Control

• 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

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Book, Write

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Day, After

• Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn’t go too far out of the box.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Reality, Long

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Nothing, Need

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

  Robert Redford

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Story

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

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Talent, Started

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Baseball

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Leave, Normal

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Come, Control

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

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in past, Dangerous

• 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

• 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.

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Mind, Attention

• 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

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

  Robert Redford

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  Tags in Person

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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