Robert Redford Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.”

“Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.”

“I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.”

“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.”

“People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.”

“I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.”

“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.”

“All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.”

“Golf 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.”

“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”