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
thinking needs documentaries
I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?
tough film love-making
I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.
challenges actors comfort
Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.
regret done ability
I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.
beautiful kids freckles
I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'
play bars starting
I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.
book feelings acting
I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest's book, I thought, This is it.
enemy looks lines
I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.
country strong political
I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.
thinking people together
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.
art hands years
Between 18 and 19 years old [in the 1950s] I came to Paris. I studied art. And that experience really did change my life. I was living hand to mouth. I walked everywhere. I thought, this city is incredible but you really have to experience it by walking it.
country art hurt
The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.
character actors kind
I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.
confused mean independent
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.