Robert Redford

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

— Robert Redford

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…

— Robert Redford

I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country.

— Robert Redford

Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.

— Robert Redford

When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional…

— Robert Redford

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

— Robert Redford

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive…

— Robert Redford

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave…

— Robert Redford

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that…

— Robert Redford

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…

— Robert Redford

We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress…

— Robert Redford

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important…

— Robert Redford

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody…

— Robert Redford

There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this…

— Robert Redford

Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we…

— Robert Redford

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that…

— Robert Redford

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

— Robert Redford

Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

— Robert Redford

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

— Robert Redford

When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new…

— Robert Redford

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the…

— Robert Redford

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

— Robert Redford

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way.…

— Robert Redford

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

— Robert Redford

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing…

— Robert Redford

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

— Robert Redford

If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.

— Robert Redford

I'm an impatient person, so it's hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take.

— Robert Redford

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

— Robert Redford

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

— Robert Redford

If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how…

— Robert Redford

You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere.…

— Robert Redford

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

— Robert Redford

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

— Robert Redford

For me, the Sundance Institute is just an extension of something I believed in, which is creating a mechanism for new voices…

— Robert Redford

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

— Robert Redford

I guess there are different ways to handle success. You can multiply it financially and use it to multiply your net worth.…

— Robert Redford

San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.

— 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…

— Robert Redford

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular,…

— Robert Redford