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
backs business failures mean meaner strength survive tough year
Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
becomes business films hard love performing unfinished
The business has changed, ... The business is what it is; it's a business. Therefore, it's hard to do the films like 'An Unfinished Life' that are more humanistic. I've always been selective, and usually like to do my own things. But as that narrows down, it becomes more and more difficult. But I love it. My love is performing and directing.
magic
If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.
audiences commitment developing diverse ideas innovative institute shares sundance theater voices
Sundance Institute shares with BAM a commitment to championing new ideas and diverse voices and to developing audiences for innovative film, theater and music.
film
The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.
home profound soul
I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of "progress." I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.
complicated
I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.
alike paul reluctant talk talking
I think Paul and I are probably alike in that we're reluctant to talk about something that is not real yet, but we are talking about it.
command dial event scandal sure
I'm not sure you can have an event like that anymore. When we made the film, as you can see, we had dial phones, there was no Internet, there was no cable, there was no computerization of our culture, and so one event like this -- one scandal -- could command that kind of attention.
gone great guy
God, it was great to play a guy like him, gone to seed, surly,
coming films normal
The film is very, very different from the normal kind of films that are coming out right now.
forever changed
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.
accuracy fall hollywood messing objective otherwise perception vital
Accuracy was the big, big objective in making the film. We had to be accurate, otherwise we would fall under that perception that Hollywood was messing around with a very vital event.
centers excited found francisco great heart holds home perfect san special sundance
As San Francisco holds a special place in my heart and is one of the nation's great centers of independent film, I am particularly excited to have found such a perfect home for Sundance in this city.