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
hard hear held journalism nixon opinion resigned wants
Nixon had already resigned and the held opinion (in Hollywood) was 'No one cares. No one wants to hear about this. And I said, 'No, it's not about Nixon. It's about something else. It's about investigative journalism and hard work.
affects america area consequences costs easily felt gray grew individual interested life living resolve thinking wanting
It felt to me like America was always wanting to resolve things too quickly, without thinking through what the costs and consequences would be and how that affects an individual living in that world. Then as I grew up and went about my life, I think I just got more and more interested in that gray area where things are not so easily quantified.
believe want should
I didn't want the attacks to affect me. I don't believe you should be led by fear.
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.
hero television want
Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.
alive want take-a-chance
I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.
strong vision want
Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.
beginning bound create criticized fail happy
We could create something that was criticized in the beginning as bound to fail because it wasn't commercial. And it has worked, and I'm happy with it.
alone came leave milk sequel stuff
The stuff that came to us wasn't any good, ... (They said) can you do a sequel to 'The Sting?' No, leave that one alone ... don't try to milk it.
funny passengers
We do not own this place, we are just passengers
scene vowed
I vowed after that scene because there was a scene where things went wrong,
absorb chance deal films great information offer subject viewers
Documentary films offer viewers a chance to absorb a great deal more information about a subject or issue.
changed films instead people
There's going to be a lot of films in there that people are just not going to like at all. That's part of the deal. I don't think it's changed. What has changed is now, instead of 350 people there, as it was the first year, there's 40,000, 45,000.
program
We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.