Robert Redford quotes

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions. (Robert Redford)
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. View quote
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Be careful of success; it has a dark side. View quote
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I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability. View quote
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Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is. View quote
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Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on. View quote
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I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am. View quote
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I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. View quote
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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. View quote
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The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story. View quote
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Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity. (Robert Redford)
I love making films more than anything, but it's tough. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent. View quote
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I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life. View quote
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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. View quote
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Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. View quote
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We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day. View quote
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It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. (Robert Redford)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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