Robert Redford
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
Robert RedfordIdeas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.
Robert RedfordPeople have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
Robert RedfordI 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.
Robert RedfordI did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
Robert RedfordWell I like to work, it's just being as selective as you are at the time, when there's maybe less product out there that's available.
Robert RedfordIt's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.
Robert RedfordAs 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.
Robert RedfordSport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
Robert RedfordIf you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.
Robert RedfordNever revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.
Robert RedfordGolf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.
Robert RedfordI don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
Robert RedfordI am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
Robert RedfordLastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.
Robert RedfordWhat I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.
Robert RedfordIt's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Robert RedfordSundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
Robert Redford