List of Robert Redford Quotes

Essentially, My Kids Grew Up With The Emphasis On The Environment Because I Became A Political Activist In About 1969 And It Was Not An Easy Time. Those Were The Days When The Oil And Gas Companies Pretty Much Controlled The Show And Anybody Speaking About Solar Energy Or Carbon Energy Would Get Smashed Down As Being A Radical Or A Tree-hugger Or What Have You. So I Was Out There Feeling Very Often Alone And My Kids Would Get That.

It's Good To Say, 'look, I Can't Always Be Right, But My Gut Tells Me This' - And Then You Confirm With Your Gut.

Right Now I Am Working On Something That's Pretty Important To Me. It Has To Do With My Own History In Politics. I'd Done All The President's Men, And The History Of How That Came About Is A Story Unto Itself. It Began With The Candidate. No One Knows About That Connection. I Was On A Train, And I Was Promoting The Candidate Going From Jacksonville, Florida, Down To Miami To Duplicate What Candidates In 1972 Did.

I Guess The Optimistic Thing Is That Those People In Congress Who Are Climate Deniers, I Think Their Time Has Run Out.

In Fact, I Think More Broadly About What An Audience Requires, But I Want An Audience To Be Fascinated By The Process Of Finding An Answer, Or Finding Out There Isn't One.

The Art Of Making A Film And Its Content Are Far More Interesting To Me Than The Result Or Impact.

Curiously, Directing My Own Films Have Made Me More Tolerant And Patient. I've Always Been An Extremely Impatient Actor. Waiting Around Drove Me Nuts. But Now I'm Much More Sympathetic To A Director's Struggle.

We Program The Festival, After 20 Years, Exactly The Way We Did On The First Day.

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.

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.

Water Is The Sleeping Giant Issue Of The 21st Century And We All Need To Wake Up About It.

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.