Robert Redford
Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. is an American actor, director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, and philanthropist. Redford is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 August 1936
CitySanta Monica, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Redford quotes about
aging tough knows
The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.
down-and firsts hollywood
Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.
dad scotland poverty
I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.
worry
I never had to worry about divestment because I never invested.
artist years actors
When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.
sports golf tests
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.
baseball baseball-love
God, I just love baseball.
thinking people trying
I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a saying when we were trying to pay attention to the environment that people used this phrase NIMBY - not in my back yard. People were saying, 'I don't care, it is not in my back yard.' But now it's in everyone's back yard.
horse space mountain
I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.
voice ideas vision
Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.
voice discovery talent
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
tough film love-making
I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.
thinking want facts
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.
regret done ability
I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.