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
moving past danger
Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.
country feet america
From my experience in my country, America over and over again takes itself right to the brink, it puts one foot over but it never goes over. It wakes up at the last minute and says woah, and then pulls back.
ambiguity complexity
Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.
hollywood seems
It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.
race people nerves
Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.
looks guts i-can
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.
golf film metaphor
I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.
believe culture share
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.
mean thinking years
There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this is going to be the new this, this is going to be the new that, and it never is. The buzz just doesn't mean anything. I'm glad it doesn't. Because I think the festival shows that what succeeds is content.
utah people analysis
Other people have analysis. I have Utah.
struggle waiting-around nuts
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.
music art expression
It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.
people levels festivals
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.
information journalism internet
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.