Robert Redford Quotes

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

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?

God, I just love baseball.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

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

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

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.

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

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

If you can do more, you should.

The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.

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

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

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.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

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

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.

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

We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

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

Utah is changing. There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them. People should be able to marry whomever they love.

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.

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

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.

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.

If you stay in Beverly Hills too long, you become a Mercedes.

I never had to worry about divestment because I never invested.

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.

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

I'm not good at compromise.

What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

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

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.

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

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.

Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.